AS59395 — EFAR-AS Southern Communications Ltd

AS59395 announces 23 IPv4 prefixes covering 56,320 addresses and 4 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

EFAR-AS is operated by Southern Communications Group.

What it's used for

• The address space carries business and enterprise traffic, evidenced by netnames such as UK-SOUTHERNCOMMS-20031117 and reverse DNS entries like test.sclcore.net and adsl.link-connect.net.uk.
• The AS announces 55,808 IPv4 addresses across 27 prefixes and 4 IPv6 prefixes, while maintaining 88 observed neighbours.
• As a B2B communications provider, the traffic consists of corporate office workers, web/API endpoints, and branch backhaul connections for enterprise clients.

Notable

• All registrants in the evidence pack are listed as Southern Communications Ltd, which aligns with the AS handle and the operator's identity.
• Southern Communications Group has rebranded to SCG, adopting a trademarked cloud outline and the domain scgcloud.com.
• The inventory consists of a mix of /18, /19, /20, /21, /22, /23, and /24 prefixes, indicating a diverse and segmented address estate.

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

Announced prefixes

• 5.133.16.0/21
• 5.175.59.0/24
• 5.175.61.0/24
• 46.31.80.0/21
• 46.31.168.0/21
• 46.231.64.0/21
• 82.144.224.0/19
• 82.215.0.0/18
• 87.238.216.0/21
• 89.105.0.0/19
• 109.235.120.0/21
• 185.7.188.0/23
• 185.36.248.0/22
• 185.45.24.0/22
• 185.63.80.0/22
• 185.65.24.0/22
• 185.74.232.0/21
• 185.109.104.0/22
• 185.136.74.0/23
• 185.159.216.0/22
• 185.175.112.0/22
• 217.119.128.0/24
• 217.119.137.0/24
• 2a00:11f0::/32
• 2a02:73c0::/32
• 2a05:4b80::/29
• 2a05:4bc0::/29

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS2914 NTT America, Inc.
• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS50304 Blix Solutions AS
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS3741 Dimension Data
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS7575 Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet)
• AS33891 Core-Backbone GmbH
• AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"
• AS4657 StarHub Ltd
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.
• AS6797 GlobalConnect AB
• AS25091 IP-Max SA
• AS42010 I.T. PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LIMITED

Downstream networks

• AS199283 STRUCTURED COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
• AS203449 Hopewiser Ltd
• AS64474 IT Support Services Team Limited
• AS209999 Ascot Racecourse Ltd
• AS203452 Swarco UK & Ireland Ltd
• AS207039 Satellite Applications Catapult Limited

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS199283 STRUCTURED COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS2914 NTT America, Inc.
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS203449 Hopewiser Ltd
• AS64474 IT Support Services Team Limited
• AS203452 Swarco UK & Ireland Ltd
• AS209999 Ascot Racecourse Ltd
• AS50304 Blix Solutions AS
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS3741 Dimension Data
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS33891 Core-Backbone GmbH
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"
• AS4657 StarHub Ltd
• AS7575 Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet)

Routing security

• RPKI: 31 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 41 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 84% of announcements registered; 39 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-EFAR, AS-HURRICANE, AS-HURRICANEV6, AS-HYTRON, AS-HYTRON, AS-HYTRONNETWORK, AS-LONAP-CONNECTED, AS-LONAP-MLP, AS-LONAP-MLP-V6, AS-MANDA-LINX-PEERS-V4, AS-MANDA-LINX-PEERS-V6, AS-TELSTRA-INTL-CUSTOMERS, AS13335:AS-CUSTOMERS, AS17433:AS-HYTRON, AS17433:AS-HYTRON, AS202662:AS-HYTRON, AS59426:AS-INTEXONLTD-PEERS.

Internet exchanges

• LINX LON1 — London, United Kingdom
• London Network Access Point — London, United Kingdom