AS8738 — VISA-ISRAEL-AS

AS8738 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,024 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Israel Credit Cards Ltd (VISA-ISRAEL-AS) — the Israeli card issuer and acquirer that trades as Cal, formerly Visa CAL. Five prefixes inside 192.114.36.0/22, 1,024 addresses, two BGP neighbours.

What it's used for

• The public edge of a card-processing business: cardholder portals, merchant and API endpoints, and corporate mail. The rDNS is entirely the company's own — cal-online.co.il for the consumer and API front ends, icc.co.il for internal infrastructure.
• Multi-homing is the point of the AS. A payment processor cannot afford to have its authorisation path depend on one carrier, so it holds its own addresses and announces them to more than one provider.

Notable

• The handle is a licensing artifact, not the company. VISA-ISRAEL names the card scheme the issuer was originally licensed under; this is not Visa Inc. and none of this space belongs to the international network. The company rebranded to plain Cal years ago and the registry handle simply never followed.
• 1,024 addresses is small even for a bank-sized enterprise. Card processors keep their production estate on private space; only the internet-facing sliver needs a public AS.

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

Announced prefixes

• 192.114.36.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS32787 Akamai Technologies, Inc.
• AS1680 Cellcom Fixed Line Communication L.P

Adjacent networks

• AS32787 Akamai Technologies, Inc.
• AS1680 Cellcom Fixed Line Communication L.P

Routing security

• RPKI: 5 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 5 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 5 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-BEZEQINT, AS-GOLDEN, AS-HOTNET-IL, AS-INETGOLD, AS-KDDCUSTOMER2, AS-NV, AS-PROLE, AS-TELSTRA-INTL-CUSTOMERS, AS198949:AS-SD, AS3491:AS-CUSTOMERS-EU, AS5486:AS-SET.