AS6391 — URBAN-15-AS

AS6391 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 6,400 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

URBAN-15-AS is registered to Beanfield Technologies Inc. of Toronto. The handle preserves its origin: the AS came from Urban Communications / Urbanfibre, the Burnaby, British Columbia fibre operator that Beanfield acquired in July 2022. Its address space still serves the Greater Vancouver network.

What it's used for

• Fibre connectivity in the Greater Vancouver area over the former Urbanfibre network, whose customers include municipalities such as the City of Vancouver and the City of Coquitlam.
• Business and multi-tenant building connectivity, plus some hosted and colocated services within the announced ranges.

Notable

The customer mix is institutional and commercial — city governments, businesses and building networks — rather than a mass-market residential pool, which is why the address count is modest for an ISP. Reverse DNS across the space is heterogeneous, pointing at individual customer and hosted systems rather than uniform subscriber pools.

Beanfield builds and owns its own fibre in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver; this AS is specifically the Vancouver-region asset, not Beanfield's main Ontario network.

Interesting

The AS registration predates the acquisition by well over a decade, so the number rides with the network rather than the brand — a common pattern in Canadian fibre consolidation, and a reason the registered holder name and the reverse DNS can disagree.

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

Announced prefixes

• 97.107.176.0/20
• 206.214.246.0/24
• 216.152.192.0/21
• 2605:8c80::/32

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS293 ESnet
• AS3130 RGnet OU
• AS7575 Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet)

Downstream networks

• AS11831 eSecureData
• AS55124 E-Comm 9-1-1
• AS54643 Idigital Internet Inc.
• AS27232 OOMA ENTERPRISE - Ooma, Inc.
• AS396005 New Westminster Public Library
• AS12654 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)

Adjacent networks

• AS11831 eSecureData
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS55124 E-Comm 9-1-1
• AS54643 Idigital Internet Inc.
• AS3130 RGnet OU
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS7575 Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet)
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS293 ESnet
• AS27232 OOMA ENTERPRISE - Ooma, Inc.
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS396005 New Westminster Public Library
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS12654 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS11814 Distributel Communications Limited

Internet exchanges

• Seattle Internet Exchange — Seattle, United States
• Vancouver Internet Exchange — Vancouver, Canada