AS8590 — BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

AS8590 announces 14 IPv4 prefixes covering 16,384 addresses and 9 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG — the BMW Group, the Munich carmaker behind BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce. The AS carries the company's own corporate network.

What it's used for

• Enterprise IT for a global manufacturer: corporate services, mail and internet-facing gateways. Sampled reverse DNS resolves into bmwgroup.com and bmw.com (for example smtu.bmwgroup.com), so the space is used by BMW itself rather than leased out.
• About 16,400 IPv4 addresses across 29 prefixes, plus a substantial IPv6 footprint (15 prefixes), mostly announced as individual /24s from 160.46.0.0/16, 160.48.0.0/16, 192.109.x and 193.23.x.

Notable

• The many-small-prefixes pattern is not the scattered, third-party inventory of an address broker: every block is BMW's own space, announced from BMW's own AS, with first-party reverse DNS. It reflects an enterprise carving up legacy blocks across sites and internet gateways.
• Five observed neighbours — multi-homed to a handful of carriers, as an enterprise of this size would be, with no downstream customers.

Interesting

• BMW holds 192.109.63.0/24, 192.109.64.0/24 and 192.109.65.0/24, part of the old European 192.109/16 allocations handed out in the pre-CIDR era. Its connectivity long predates the commercial internet in Germany.

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

Announced prefixes

• 160.46.215.0/24
• 160.46.224.0/19
• 160.48.164.0/23
• 160.48.174.0/24
• 160.48.212.0/23
• 160.51.48.0/20
• 192.109.63.0/24
• 192.109.64.0/23
• 192.109.190.0/24
• 193.23.33.0/24
• 193.23.38.0/23
• 193.23.40.0/24
• 193.23.43.0/24
• 193.23.44.0/24
• 2a03:1e80:ff4::/48
• 2a03:1e80:ff6::/47
• 2a03:1e80:ff9::/48
• 2a03:1e80:ffa::/47
• 2a03:1e80:ffc::/46
• 2a03:1e84:9321::/48
• 2a03:1e84:9322::/47
• 2a03:1e84:9324::/48
• 2c0f:f400:e000::/48

Upstream networks

• AS34309 Link11 GmbH
• AS8881 1&1 Versatel GmbH
• AS1764 Next Layer Telekommunikationsdienstleistungs- und Beratungs GmbH
• AS25818 CMC NETWORK (PTY) LTD
• AS5400 British Telecommunications Limited

Adjacent networks

• AS34309 Link11 GmbH
• AS8881 1&1 Versatel GmbH
• AS1764 Next Layer Telekommunikationsdienstleistungs- und Beratungs GmbH
• AS25818 CMC NETWORK (PTY) LTD
• AS5400 British Telecommunications Limited