AS16654 — VERO-NETWORKS-AS16654

AS16654 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,096 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The counters on the block names skip from six to ten to twelve.

What it's used for

• A broadband provider's network. Eight IPv4 prefixes announced from the United States, no IPv6, four thousand and ninety-six addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• The AS handle joins an older company name to the AS number itself. The holder line gives a newer name with a different second word.
• All eight blocks are registered to the holder under one scheme: the brand, a version marker for the address protocol, then a contraction of the word block and a counter.
• Those counters read six, ten and twelve. The gaps say other numbered blocks exist outside this announcement, or existed once.
• Seven of eighteen queried addresses answered, each the address with hyphens on a fourth brand's domain, matching neither the handle's name nor the holder's.
• One observed neighbour carries all eight blocks.

Interesting

• Numbered blocks with gaps are an inventory seen through a keyhole. The routing table shows what is announced; the numbering hints at how much more the operator has, or has let go.
• A version marker in every netname comes from an operator that expected the other protocol to need its own series. None appears here.
• Three brands across the handle, the holder and the reverse zone is a small provider renamed or bought more than once, with each layer of the record frozen at a different point.

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

Announced prefixes

• 162.219.204.0/22
• 208.64.76.0/22
• 208.85.176.0/21

Upstream networks

• AS6653 Vero Broadband

Adjacent networks

• AS6653 Vero Broadband

Routing security

• RPKI: 7 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 3 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 11 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-6653, AS-DATA102, AS-HURRICANE, AS-PNAPDEN, AS-PNAPSEF, AS-TRANSROUTE-SPEC, AS-VEROBB, AS-WAVE-CUSTOMERS, AS-XO-B.