AS8014 — BATELNET

Network type: residential

AS8014 announces 11 IPv4 prefixes covering 41,472 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

BATELNET — the network of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company, the incumbent telecommunications operator of The Bahamas. Registered with ARIN in 1996 under the corporation's older name, it is the country's principal eyeball network.

What it's used for

• Residential and business internet access across the Bahamian islands, plus the operator's mobile and fixed-line services.
• BTC's own hosting, mail and DNS for its subscribers.

Notable

• Reverse DNS settles the kind: addresses resolve as d-63-245-112-1.batelnet.bs — a dynamic subscriber naming pattern, one host per address, under the operator's own .bs domain. This is an access network.
• The inventory is a patchwork of ARIN blocks (204.236.64.0/18 fragments, 63.245.112.0/20, 108.60.224.0/19, 216.137.0.0/21, 104.166.32.0/20) registered to BTC and its predecessor entities, announced as roughly 24 prefixes and ~41k addresses. Small in absolute terms, but this is a 400,000-person country.
• Only a handful of BGP neighbours: an island incumbent buys transit from a couple of mainland carriers and does not need to peer widely.

Interesting

• The .bs reverse names carry the older BaTelNet brand, which is where the ASN handle comes from. Like most handles, it has outlived the branding.

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

Announced prefixes

• 63.245.112.0/20
• 65.198.208.0/21
• 69.79.28.0/24
• 69.79.70.0/23
• 72.51.75.0/24
• 104.166.32.0/20
• 108.60.224.0/19
• 199.38.198.0/23
• 204.236.64.0/18
• 206.48.0.0/22
• 216.137.0.0/20

Upstream networks

• AS23520 Columbus Networks USA, Inc.

Downstream networks

• AS22357 Secure Shores Data Center
• AS19377 Cloud Carib Limited
• AS397972 Baha Mar

Adjacent networks

• AS23520 Columbus Networks USA, Inc.
• AS22357 Secure Shores Data Center
• AS19377 Cloud Carib Limited
• AS397972 Baha Mar