AS54327 — MTWEST - MONTANA WEST, L.L.C.

AS54327 announces 5 IPv4 prefixes covering 6,912 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

MTWEST is operated by Montana West, L.L.C., a regional telecommunications provider in Montana.

What it's used for

• The address space carries subscriber and enterprise traffic for rural Montana communities, evidenced by netnames such as COMMUNITY-TEL-INC, MONTANAWEST, SKC2, and HOT-SPRINGS-TEL-CO.
• The AS announces 6,912 IPv4 addresses across 9 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, with only 3 observed routing neighbours, indicating a local access network rather than a transit provider.
• Traffic consists of residential broadband, business internet, and wireless services for towns like Ronan, Polson, and Hot Springs, as well as institutional connectivity for Salish Kootenai College.

Notable

• Registrants include Ronan Telephone Company, Montana West, L.L.C., and Salish Kootenai College, reflecting a portfolio of acquired local telephone companies and institutional partners.
• The inventory is fragmented across multiple /22, /23, and /24 blocks, consistent with the consolidation of smaller regional carriers into a single operational entity.
• Reverse DNS entries like ppp206-183-122-254.polson.net confirm the use of PPP-based access technologies for end-user connectivity.

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

Announced prefixes

• 162.219.72.0/22
• 192.30.116.0/22
• 204.62.201.0/24
• 204.62.204.0/23
• 206.183.112.0/20
• 2606:cf00::/32

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC

Downstream networks

• AS398437 Hot Springs Telephone Company

Adjacent networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS398437 Hot Springs Telephone Company

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 7 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 8 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-HURRICANE, AS-SEATTLEIX-RS-CLIENTS, AS-TRANSARIA, AS3742:AS-P, AS54327:AS-ALL.

Internet exchanges

• Seattle Internet Exchange — Seattle, United States