AS16260 — GTT-AUS

AS16260 announces 10 IPv4 prefixes covering 7,936 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Ten blocks, four former owners, and only one of them registered to the company announcing them.

What it's used for

• A transit provider's network. Eleven prefixes announced from the United Kingdom, one of them IPv6, seven thousand nine hundred and thirty-six addresses, through sixteen observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Four blocks are registered to an exchange-services company whose netname is its own name in capitals.
• Four more belong to a zone-branded provider under two netnames, one plain and one with a numeral appended, with no rule distinguishing which block gets which.
• One belongs to a wireless carrier, and exactly one carries the announcing company's own netname, which is its abbreviation written twice with a hyphen between.
• Every block comes from legacy address space administered on another continent, while all of them are announced from the United Kingdom.
• The AS handle pairs the company abbreviation with three letters that name a country other than the one the blocks are announced from.
• Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• A transit provider grows by acquisition, and the registry is the slowest thing to catch up. Routing moves the day the deal closes; a registration changes only when somebody files a form, and nothing breaks if nobody does.
• Repeating an abbreviation to make a netname, when the abbreviation alone would do, is the sound of a field that requires two parts and a company with only one name to give it.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 69.43.240.0/23
• 69.43.243.0/24
• 69.43.244.0/22
• 69.43.248.0/21
• 192.157.24.0/22
• 199.116.144.0/22
• 199.116.150.0/24
• 208.77.64.0/24
• 208.77.66.0/23
• 208.77.68.0/22
• 2001:668:1fc::/46

Upstream networks

• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS7474 SingTel Optus Pty Ltd
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS64073 Vetta Group
• AS24115 Equinix
• AS24482 SG.GS

Downstream networks

• AS29802 HIVELOCITY, Inc.
• AS216180 WHG Hosting Services Ltd
• AS20340 CallTower, Inc.
• AS25896 IPC Network Services Inc.
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS24115 Equinix
• AS7474 SingTel Optus Pty Ltd
• AS29802 HIVELOCITY, Inc.
• AS216180 WHG Hosting Services Ltd
• AS20340 CallTower, Inc.
• AS25896 IPC Network Services Inc.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS64073 Vetta Group

Internet exchanges

• Equinix Internet Exchange Sydney — Sydney, Australia