AS16574 — GTEK-COMMUNICATIONS

AS16574 announces 12 IPv4 prefixes covering 8,192 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Every reverse name carries an equipment code, a shortened town, a county and a state, and one is punctuated wrong.

What it's used for

• A regional provider's network. Twelve IPv4 prefixes announced from the United States, no IPv6, eight thousand one hundred and ninety-two addresses, through eleven observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The blocks are all the company's, under three netname styles: a large carrier's four letters plus the company shortened and an address, the company plus a compass direction, and the shortened company alone.
• The carrier-style netnames carry an address that is not always the block's own. Three different blocks share one netname naming the address of only one of them.
• Only the blocks in the compass-direction family list contacts, and those list four: a technical contact named for the registry itself, an abuse contact, and an operations centre.
• Four of eighteen queried addresses answered. Each is the letters for an address, the address itself, a code naming a piece of equipment, a town name squeezed to six letters, a county name, and a two-letter state code.
• One of the four keeps dots between the first two parts of the address and hyphens after that, so the same template produced two different punctuations.

Interesting

• A reverse name that names the tower, the town and the county is a support tool. An engineer reading a ticket knows where to drive from the address alone.
• It is also a map of the company's coverage, published to anyone who queries it, which is the trade every descriptive naming scheme makes.

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

Announced prefixes

• 8.24.208.0/23
• 8.24.210.0/24
• 8.24.212.0/22
• 8.192.156.0/22
• 50.93.145.0/24
• 50.93.148.0/22
• 50.93.152.0/22
• 50.93.156.0/24
• 50.93.158.0/23
• 65.90.11.0/24
• 65.91.196.0/22
• 206.198.244.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS13876 FiberLight, LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS14907 Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
• AS293 ESnet

Adjacent networks

• AS13876 FiberLight, LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS14907 Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
• AS293 ESnet

Internet exchanges

• Equinix Internet Exchange Dallas — Dallas, United States