AS4986 — INTERSTAR
AS4986 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 5,120 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.
About this network
INTERSTAR is the network of InterStar Network Services, Inc., an independent internet service provider based in Redding, California, and trading as ShastaBeam.
What it's used for
Broadband service in far Northern California. InterStar sells internet access to homes and businesses in the Shasta County area, and the addresses here are handed out to subscriber connections. It is an eyeball network, small and regional.
Notable
ARIN records the ASN from 1995, and the operator's roughly 5,000 IPv4 addresses come mostly from a single /20. The company takes transit from a couple of upstreams and has stayed independent through three decades of consolidation in US broadband.
Interesting
Rural Northern California is exactly the terrain where independent ISPs persist: too sparse and too mountainous for the national cable operators to bother with, which leaves room for a local operator willing to build where the big carriers will not.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.
Announced prefixes
- 69.10.160.0/20
- 74.123.100.0/22
- 2607:8b80::/32
Upstream networks
Adjacent networks
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