AS8612 — TISCALI-

Network type: residential

AS8612 announces 25 IPv4 prefixes covering 525,056 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

TISCALI-IT — Tiscali Italia S.p.A., the Italian internet provider founded in Cagliari, Sardinia in 1998. This is Tiscali's main consumer access network.

What it's used for

• Mass-market broadband and mobile for Italian households. Roughly half a million IPv4 addresses across 20 prefixes, including several full /16s and a /15 — the shape of an incumbent-scale eyeball network.
• The rDNS says exactly what the space carries, and the labels are unusually self-documenting: dynamic-adsl-IP-DASHED.clienti.tiscali.it for DSL subscribers, ppp-IP-DASHED.dialup.tiscali.it for the legacy dial-up pools, static-IP-DASHED.clienti.tiscali.it for fixed-address customers, and IP-DASHED.client-mvno.tiscali.it for Tiscali's mobile virtual network.
• Backbone routers are named in the old Cisco style (c7206IBGP-MI for Milan, GWC206-CA for Cagliari) under net.tiscali.it.

Notable

• A genuine eyeball network, and the inventory backs the marketing for once — dynamic subscriber pools dominate, exactly as a consumer ISP should look.
• The dialup zone is still delegated and still answers. Tiscali grew out of the dial-up era and the naming was never cleaned up.

Interesting

• Tiscali once ran a pan-European group with operations across half a dozen countries. That empire was sold off piece by piece through the 2000s, leaving the Italian business, and its legacy AS number, behind in Sardinia.

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

Announced prefixes

• 82.84.0.0/16
• 82.85.0.0/17
• 82.85.128.0/19
• 82.85.160.0/20
• 82.85.177.0/24
• 82.85.178.0/23
• 82.85.180.0/22
• 82.85.184.0/21
• 82.85.192.0/18
• 84.220.0.0/15
• 94.32.0.0/19
• 94.32.64.0/18
• 94.32.128.0/17
• 94.34.0.0/15
• 193.43.2.0/24
• 193.207.24.0/23
• 193.207.26.0/24
• 193.207.48.0/20
• 193.207.64.0/18
• 193.207.128.0/18
• 193.207.248.0/21
• 195.130.224.0/19
• 212.123.64.0/19
• 213.205.0.0/18
• 217.73.208.0/21
• 2a01:7d0::/32

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS3303 Swisscom (Schweiz) AG
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS59919 Brainbox S.r.l.
• AS20766 Association "Gitoyen"
• AS34019 Hivane Association
• AS25091 IP-Max SA

Downstream networks

• AS215933 Fenice Servizi SRLs
• AS201093 Telit Communications Limited
• AS198102 XSTREAM SRL
• AS201935 Skylogic Mediterraneo s.r.l
• AS212256 JUMYK SRL
• AS41986 Sardegna IT srl
• AS31617 REEVO S.P.A.

Adjacent networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS215933 Fenice Servizi SRLs
• AS198102 XSTREAM SRL
• AS201093 Telit Communications Limited
• AS201935 Skylogic Mediterraneo s.r.l
• AS212256 JUMYK SRL
• AS3303 Swisscom (Schweiz) AG
• AS41986 Sardegna IT srl
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS59919 Brainbox S.r.l.
• AS20766 Association "Gitoyen"
• AS31617 REEVO S.P.A.
• AS34019 Hivane Association
• AS25091 IP-Max SA

Internet exchanges

• Milan Internet Exchange — Milan, Italy
• Roma Internet Exchange Point — Rome, Italy
• Torino Piemonte Exchange Point — Torino, Italy
• Milan Neutral Access Point — Milan, Italy