AS7106 — INDEPENDENTSFIBERNETWORK

Network type: residential

AS7106 announces 48 IPv4 prefixes covering 62,720 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

INDEPENDENTSFIBERNETWORK is operated by Com Net, Inc. of Wapakoneta, Ohio. Independents Fiber Network is Com Net's fiber subsidiary, a backhaul and transport network built with and for Ohio's independent local telephone companies; the retail broadband riding on it is branded Bright.net.

What it's used for

• Consumer broadband access across rural and small-town Ohio (and nearby Michigan and Indiana), delivered through the member independent telcos.
• Fiber backhaul and Ethernet transport between those independent providers.
• Announces roughly nine prefixes including several /18s and /19s, plus 2607:fa10::/32 for IPv6.

Notable

• Reverse DNS settles the question of what the space is: names like ridg-ftth-…ftth.bright.net, celina-pppoe-…dsl.bright.net and stm-osi-dhcp-…brightohio.net are textbook subscriber pools (fibre-to-the-home, PPPoE DSL and DHCP), with per-town prefixes on the hostnames.
• Despite the wholesale-sounding "fiber network" name, the address space is predominantly eyeball space: households on FTTH and DSL.
• The ARIN organisation handle is still BNET-Z, a legacy artifact of the Bright.net registration.

Interesting

• This is a co-operative shape that is common in the rural US: a group of small independent telephone companies pool one fiber network and one AS rather than each running their own transit and routing.

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

Announced prefixes

• 66.209.128.0/22
• 66.209.132.0/23
• 66.209.136.0/21
• 68.65.96.0/20
• 74.126.64.0/21
• 96.45.240.0/20
• 209.143.0.0/21
• 209.143.8.0/23
• 209.143.10.0/24
• 209.143.12.0/22
• 209.143.16.0/23
• 209.143.19.0/24
• 209.143.20.0/22
• 209.143.24.0/21
• 209.143.32.0/20
• 209.143.48.0/21
• 209.143.56.0/24
• 209.143.58.0/23
• 209.143.60.0/23
• 209.143.62.0/24
• 209.173.160.0/23
• 209.173.164.0/22
• 209.173.168.0/21
• 209.173.176.0/22
• 209.173.180.0/23
• 209.173.183.0/24
• 216.201.0.0/19
• 216.201.32.0/21
• 216.201.40.0/23
• 216.201.43.0/24
• 216.201.44.0/22
• 216.201.48.0/20
• 216.255.8.0/21
• 216.255.16.0/22
• 216.255.20.0/24
• 216.255.22.0/23
• 216.255.24.0/21
• 216.255.32.0/23
• 216.255.35.0/24
• 216.255.36.0/22
• 216.255.40.0/23
• 216.255.42.0/24
• 216.255.46.0/23
• 216.255.48.0/23
• 216.255.50.0/24
• 216.255.52.0/22
• 216.255.56.0/22
• 216.255.63.0/24
• 2607:fa10::/32

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS20205 Amplex Electric, Inc.

Downstream networks

• AS400175 Microtronix ESolutions, LLC
• AS394708 Horizon Telcom Inc.
• AS31841 NEW KNOXVILLE TELEPHONE COMPANY
• AS395848 King Networks LLC
• AS397803 Hanson Communications, Inc.
• AS400404 STEUBEN COUNTY RURAL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION
• AS13638 Metalink Technologies, Inc.
• AS398180 HDER Link, LTD
• AS11623 CT Communications Network
• AS35860 Imagine Networks
• AS401478 Wabash Mutual Telephone Company
• AS399928 PAULDING PUTNAM ELECTRIC TRUST, INC.
• AS16564 Adamswells Internet
• AS396327 Buckeye IT Services LLC
• AS394176 I-NET USA, LLC
• AS54274 Henny Penny Corporation

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS400175 Microtronix ESolutions, LLC
• AS394708 Horizon Telcom Inc.
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS31841 NEW KNOXVILLE TELEPHONE COMPANY
• AS395848 King Networks LLC
• AS397803 Hanson Communications, Inc.
• AS400404 STEUBEN COUNTY RURAL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION
• AS13638 Metalink Technologies, Inc.
• AS398180 HDER Link, LTD
• AS11623 CT Communications Network
• AS35860 Imagine Networks
• AS20205 Amplex Electric, Inc.
• AS401478 Wabash Mutual Telephone Company
• AS399928 PAULDING PUTNAM ELECTRIC TRUST, INC.
• AS394176 I-NET USA, LLC
• AS16564 Adamswells Internet
• AS396327 Buckeye IT Services LLC
• AS54274 Henny Penny Corporation

Internet exchanges

• Ohio IX — Columbus, United States