AS8449 — AS8449-ELCAT

AS8449 announces 16 IPv4 prefixes covering 12,544 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

ElCat Ltd. (AS8449-ELCAT) — a Kyrgyz telecom operator based in Bishkek, operating since 1994 and one of the country's oldest and largest internet providers, with its own fibre backbone.

What it's used for

• IP transit, dedicated channels and IP VPN for corporate customers, government organisations and other Kyrgyz operators, including the country's cellular carriers.
• The address space reflects that: static assignments under NAME.static.elcat.kg, named customer hosts (global-tours.elcat.kg, netsolution.elcat.kg), voice gear (gkbox1.voip.kg) and access gateways. Generic sequential names of the form IP-ADDR-IP-ADDR.elcat.kg cover the rest.

Notable

• Despite being a household ISP name in Kyrgyzstan, the inventory and the company's own description are business-first: corporate connectivity, operator transit and cross-border capacity, not mass-market broadband pools. There are no dial-up, DSL or dynamic-subscriber naming conventions anywhere in the sampled rDNS.
• Well peered for its size — roughly 16,000 IPv4 addresses but dozens of BGP neighbours, which is what an operator-of-operators looks like.

Interesting

• ElCat built the first cross-border fibre link from Kyrgyzstan into Kazakhstan (Bishkek to Kordai) in 2009. In a landlocked, mountainous country, whoever owns the border crossings owns the internet economics.

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

Announced prefixes

• 5.57.8.0/21
• 31.192.248.0/22
• 77.95.59.0/24
• 77.95.60.0/24
• 77.95.62.0/23
• 94.143.192.0/22
• 185.54.253.0/24
• 185.54.254.0/23
• 212.42.96.0/22
• 212.42.100.0/23
• 212.42.102.0/24
• 212.42.104.0/24
• 212.42.106.0/23
• 212.42.108.0/22
• 212.42.112.0/21
• 212.42.120.0/22
• 2a00:7160::/32

Upstream networks

• AS28910 "Uzbektelekom" Joint Stock Company
• AS35168 TNS-Plus LLP
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS49673 Truenetwork LLC
• AS9002 RETN Limited

Downstream networks

• AS12764 AKNET Ltd.
• AS50223 Alfa Telecom CJSC
• AS12997 OJSC Kyrgyztelecom
• AS41750 Mega-Line Ltd.
• AS42837 Extra Line LLC
• AS207369 Skynet Telecom, LLC
• AS47237 NUR Telecom LLC
• AS59684 Hoster kg, Ltd.
• AS42581 Inform Communications Ltd.
• AS213173 NSP LLC
• AS39214 Kyrgys Russian Slavic University named after First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin
• AS61196 Demir Kyrgyz International Bank CJSC
• AS44359 Kyrgyzkommertsbank OJSC
• AS207192 Anfeya LLC
• AS39036 SHORO CJSC
• AS201591 Aiyl Bank JSC
• AS204532 Kompanion Bank CJSC
• AS41271 Eldik Bank OJSC
• AS56038 RackCorp
• AS14593 Space Exploration Technologies Corporation
• AS206351 Institution American University of Central Asia
• AS39819 Optima Telecom Ltd.
• AS216287 BAKAI BANK Open Joint Stock Company
• AS44536 OJSC "Dos-Credobank"
• AS199011 CSI CJSC

Adjacent networks

• AS35168 TNS-Plus LLP
• AS28910 "Uzbektelekom" Joint Stock Company
• AS12764 AKNET Ltd.
• AS12997 OJSC Kyrgyztelecom
• AS50223 Alfa Telecom CJSC
• AS41750 Mega-Line Ltd.
• AS47237 NUR Telecom LLC
• AS42837 Extra Line LLC
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS207369 Skynet Telecom, LLC
• AS207192 Anfeya LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS59684 Hoster kg, Ltd.
• AS42581 Inform Communications Ltd.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS39214 Kyrgys Russian Slavic University named after First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin
• AS213173 NSP LLC
• AS49673 Truenetwork LLC
• AS61196 Demir Kyrgyz International Bank CJSC
• AS44359 Kyrgyzkommertsbank OJSC
• AS61399 KG-IX LLC
• AS39036 SHORO CJSC
• AS201591 Aiyl Bank JSC
• AS204532 Kompanion Bank CJSC
• AS41271 Eldik Bank OJSC

Internet exchanges

• MSK-IX Moscow — Moscow, Russia
• KG-IX — Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan