AS21681 — MPOWER-POWERED-BY-MEC - Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative

AS21681 announces 4 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,536 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

MPOWER-POWERED-BY-MEC is operated by Empower, the broadband division of Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative.

What it's used for

• The address space carries residential broadband traffic, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as cgn-198-145-122-128.chasecity.va.empower.us and cust-192-86-21-64.chasecity.va.empower.us.
• The AS announces 1536 IPv4 addresses across 4 prefixes and 17 IPv6 prefixes, connecting to only 2 observed neighbours, a ratio characteristic of an access network serving local subscribers.

Notable

• Registrants for the majority of prefixes are Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative, while the 192.86.21.0/24 block is registered to Buggs Island Telephone Co-operative under the netname EMPOWER-CHASE-CITY-CGN.
• The inventory consists of four distinct IPv4 blocks, including two /23s and two /24s, alongside a large IPv6 allocation under the 2604:cf40::/43 range.

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

Announced prefixes

• 192.86.21.0/24
• 198.145.122.0/23
• 199.196.191.0/24
• 209.112.98.0/23
• 2604:cf40::/32

Upstream networks

• AS32425 Pixel Factory

Downstream networks

• AS21891 Buggs Island Telephone Cooperative

Adjacent networks

• AS32425 Pixel Factory
• AS21891 Buggs Island Telephone Cooperative

Routing security

• RPKI: 6 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 5 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 83% of announcements registered; 10 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-EMPOWER-CUST, AS-HURRICANE, AS-HURRICANEV6, AS-PNAPNYC, AS-PXF-TRANSIT-CUST, AS-RVAIX, AS-TRANSROUTE-SPEC, AS-XO, AS-XO-B, AS21681:AS-ALL, AS32425:AS-PXF-TRANSIT-CUST.

Internet exchanges

• DE-CIX Richmond — Richmond, United States