AS5564 — SOL-AS Brightsolid Online Technology Ltd

Network type: hosting

AS5564 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 16,384 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

SOL-AS is Brightsolid, a Scottish cloud and data centre operator based in Dundee and part of the DC Thomson group. The handle preserves its former identity as Scotland Online, one of Scotland's early commercial ISPs.

What it's used for

• Colocation, managed hosting and hybrid cloud out of Brightsolid's Dundee and Aberdeen data centres, plus connectivity for those hosted customers.
• The business today is squarely a hosting and data-sovereignty provider, not the consumer ISP the SOL handle originally stood for.

Notable

• The registry description still reads "commercial internet service provider", a leftover of the Scotland Online era. The inventory and the facilities tell the current story: data centre space, not subscriber access.
• Brightsolid peers at LINX Scotland, keeping Scottish traffic local rather than hauling it to London.

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

Announced prefixes

• 194.247.64.0/19
• 213.128.224.0/19
• 2a00:5580::/29

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS33891 Core-Backbone GmbH
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS50304 Blix Solutions AS
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions

Downstream networks

• AS208564 Bedroq Limited

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS208564 Bedroq Limited
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS33891 Core-Backbone GmbH
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS50304 Blix Solutions AS
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS4657 StarHub Ltd
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch

Routing security

• RPKI: 7 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 4 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 43% of announcements registered; 4 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-BANDXUK, AS-BRIGHTSOLID, AS-DEMONCUST, AS-HURRICANE, AS-HURRICANEV6, AS-LIQUID-LINXPEERS, AS-MANDA-LINX-PEERS-V4, AS-MANDA-LINX-PEERS-V6, AS-SOL, AS-TELSTRA-INTL-CUSTOMERS, AS-WORLD-IX, AS12703:AS-PEERS, AS13335:AS-CUSTOMERS, AS51202:AS-ALL, AS6894:AS-PEERS.

Internet exchanges

• LINX LON1 — London, United Kingdom
• LINX Scotland — Scotland, United Kingdom