AS8657 — MEO-INTERNACIONAL MEO - SERVICOS DE COMUNICACOES E MULTIMEDIA S.A.

AS8657 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 11,264 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

MEO-INTERNACIONAL is the international/wholesale carrier arm of MEO, the Portuguese incumbent operator (formerly Portugal Telecom, now Altice Portugal). It is not MEO's consumer broadband network.

What it's used for

• International transit and wholesale IP interconnection: carrying traffic between Portugal and the rest of the world, and reselling transit to downstream networks, particularly on Portugal's submarine-cable routes to Europe, Africa and the Americas.

Notable

• The evidence is in the ratio, not the size. The AS announces only about 11,000 IPv4 addresses across three prefixes, yet has 136 observed BGP neighbours. A network that small with that many adjacencies is selling transit, not hosting content or numbering subscribers.
• Sampled reverse DNS resolves to lis1-cr1.cprm.net — a Lisbon core router. The cprm.net domain is Companhia Portuguesa Rádio Marconi, the historic Portuguese international-communications company absorbed into Portugal Telecom; the backbone naming outlived the brand.
• The 195.8.0.0/19 prefix has been announced from this AS since at least 2000.

Interesting

• MEO's retail eyeball network is carried on other ASNs. Geolocating this space to Portuguese households would be wrong — these are backbone and interconnect addresses.

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

Announced prefixes

• 185.96.172.0/22
• 195.8.0.0/19
• 217.168.112.0/21
• 2001:15d8::/32

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS50673 Serverius Holding B.V.
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS3333 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS6762 TELECOM ITALIA SPARKLE S.p.A.
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"
• AS3741 Dimension Data
• AS2497 Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
• AS293 ESnet
• AS3303 Swisscom (Schweiz) AG
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS34019 Hivane Association
• AS29632 Netassist International EOOD
• AS13030 Init7 (Switzerland) Ltd.
• AS42708 Glesys AB

Downstream networks

• AS15525 SERVICOS DE COMUNICACOES E MULTIMEDIA S.A.
• AS11259 Angola Telecom
• AS29614 Ghana Telecommunications Company Limited
• AS3243 SERVICOS DE COMUNICACOES E MULTIMEDIA S.A.
• AS42863 SERVICOS DE COMUNICACOES E MULTIMEDIA S.A.
• AS37196 Expresso Senegal SA
• AS37575 UNITEL T+ Telecomunicacoes, Sociedade Unipessoal, S.A.
• AS328488 DK Telecom Ltd
• AS209179 AfriCloud LLC
• AS15315 IBASIS INC.

Adjacent networks

• AS15525 SERVICOS DE COMUNICACOES E MULTIMEDIA S.A.
• AS11259 Angola Telecom
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS29614 Ghana Telecommunications Company Limited
• AS42863 SERVICOS DE COMUNICACOES E MULTIMEDIA S.A.
• AS3243 SERVICOS DE COMUNICACOES E MULTIMEDIA S.A.
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS6762 TELECOM ITALIA SPARKLE S.p.A.
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS50673 Serverius Holding B.V.
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS37196 Expresso Senegal SA
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS37575 UNITEL T+ Telecomunicacoes, Sociedade Unipessoal, S.A.
• AS293 ESnet
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS3333 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
• AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"
• AS3303 Swisscom (Schweiz) AG
• AS2497 Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
• AS34019 Hivane Association

Internet exchanges

• DE-CIX Frankfurt — Frankfurt, Germany
• LINX LON1 — London, United Kingdom
• AMS-IX Amsterdam — Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn — Ashburn, United States
• DE-CIX Madrid — Madrid, Spain
• Equinix Internet Exchange Miami — Miami, United States
• ESpanix Madrid Lower LAN — Madrid, Spain
• DE-CIX Marseille — Marseille, France
• Gigabit Portuguese Internet Exchange Point — Lisbon, Portugal