AS63457 — EMPIRE-CONNECT - Liberty Connect

AS63457 announces 10 IPv4 prefixes covering 10,240 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

EMPIRE-CONNECT is held by Liberty Connect, the telecommunications division of Empire District Industries.

What it's used for

• The address space carries residential and business broadband traffic, evidenced by netnames such as EDE-3, EDI-SUBNET-1, and EDE-21 registered to Liberty Connect and The Empire District Electric Company.
• The AS announces 10,240 IPv4 addresses across 11 prefixes and maintains 11 observed neighbours, a ratio consistent with a regional access provider serving local subscribers rather than a transit carrier.
• Traffic from this AS consists primarily of subscriber eyeballs and business endpoints connected via the company's fiber and DSL infrastructure in the Springfield, Missouri region.

Notable

• Registrants align with the announcer, with the majority of prefixes registered to Liberty Connect and one prefix (207.89.51.0/24) registered to The Empire District Electric Company, reflecting the parent organization's utility roots.
• The address inventory is fragmented into multiple /22 and /23 blocks, indicating a network that has grown through incremental acquisitions or expansions of its service area.

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

Announced prefixes

• 104.219.184.0/22
• 192.197.122.0/23
• 199.204.240.0/21
• 199.250.176.0/21
• 207.89.51.0/24
• 208.73.192.0/21
• 209.16.162.0/23
• 209.16.164.0/24
• 209.16.166.0/23
• 209.16.168.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC

Downstream networks

• AS29696 Carthage Water and Electric
• AS33136 Ozark Fiber, LLC
• AS46756 Freeman Health System
• AS35932 Splash Wireless Internet, LLC
• AS396915 Net Vision Communications, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS29696 Carthage Water and Electric
• AS33136 Ozark Fiber, LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS46756 Freeman Health System
• AS35932 Splash Wireless Internet, LLC
• AS396915 Net Vision Communications, LLC
• AS62943 Missouri Network Alliance, LLC

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 22 not-found announcements; 1 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 95% of announcements registered; 39 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-BLUEBIRD, AS-HURRICANE, AS62973:AS-CUSTOMERS, AS63457:AS-CONE.

Internet exchanges

• Kansas City Internet Exchange — Kansas City, United States