AS4195 — SHAW

AS4195 announces 4 IPv4 prefixes covering 70,144 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

SHAW is D. E. Shaw & Co. LP, the quantitative investment and technology firm headquartered in New York City. Despite the handle, this is not the Canadian cable operator Shaw Communications.

What it's used for

• Corporate and trading-infrastructure networking for a firm that runs computationally intensive quantitative strategies and the systems research behind them.
• Enterprise connectivity for offices and the firm's own compute estate, not a service sold to outside customers.

Notable

• This is private financial-industry address space. Nothing here is consumer or hosting traffic.
• The footprint (roughly 70,000 addresses) is unusually large for a private firm and reflects an early registration rather than present-day need.
• D. E. Shaw has held the number since the mid-1990s. The organization record was refreshed in a later registry cleanup, but the AS number was not reissued to a new holder.

Interesting

• The bare SHAW handle regularly causes AS4195 to be mistaken for a telecommunications provider. It is a hedge fund, and the low AS number is a reminder of how early some Wall Street quant shops built serious in-house network and compute capability.

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

Announced prefixes

• 103.145.16.0/24
• 149.77.0.0/16
• 160.30.203.0/24
• 205.231.96.0/20

Upstream networks

• AS701 Verizon Business
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS8220 COLT Technology Services Group Limited
• AS9583 Sify Limited
• AS9498 BHARTI Airtel Ltd.
• AS11269 LinkBermuda LTD
• AS3491 PCCW Global (HK) Ltd.
• AS4637 Telstra Global
• AS46887 Crown Castle Fiber LLC
• AS10103 HK Broadband Network Ltd.
• AS3855 Logic Communications Ltd
• AS4755 TATA Communications formerly VSNL is Leading ISP

Adjacent networks

• AS701 Verizon Business
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS8220 COLT Technology Services Group Limited
• AS9583 Sify Limited
• AS9498 BHARTI Airtel Ltd.
• AS11269 LinkBermuda LTD
• AS3491 PCCW Global (HK) Ltd.
• AS46887 Crown Castle Fiber LLC
• AS4637 Telstra Global
• AS10103 HK Broadband Network Ltd.
• AS3855 Logic Communications Ltd
• AS4755 TATA Communications formerly VSNL is Leading ISP