AS6501 — SOUTHERNET

AS6501 announces 4 IPv4 prefixes covering 98,304 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

SOUTHERNET is the corporate network of The Southern Company, one of the largest electric utility holding companies in the United States, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

What it's used for

• Internal enterprise and utility-operations connectivity for Southern Company and its operating subsidiaries, not a commercial ISP service.
• The announced space carries subsidiary netnames: SCSNET1 (Southern Company Services) and GPCINET (Georgia Power Company), which is the clearest confirmation that this is the utility group's own addressing.

Notable

• Around 100,000 IPv4 addresses across roughly two dozen prefixes. That is a large footprint for a corporate network, which is typical of a utility holding company spanning several state operating companies and a large field/metering estate.
• ARIN registered the ASN on 1996-05-09, part of a sequential run of genuine mid-1990s allocations in this range.

Interesting

• The technical and abuse contact is administered out of Birmingham, Alabama, reflecting the group's multi-state operating structure rather than a single Atlanta network.

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

Announced prefixes

• 146.126.0.0/16
• 148.115.0.0/18
• 148.115.224.0/19
• 148.199.160.0/19

Upstream networks

• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 26 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 0% of announcements registered; 0 route objects.