AS8838 — STRIPE-21-GROUP-LIMITED Stripe21 - Business Telecoms Solutions - www.stripe21.com

Network type: residential

AS8838 announces 6 IPv4 prefixes covering 8,192 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

STRIPE-21-GROUP-LIMITED is held by Compuweb Communications Services Limited — better known as CWCS, a Nottingham managed-hosting provider — which acquired Stripe 21, a Dorking-based business telecoms company, to bolt connectivity and voice onto its hosting portfolio. The AS carries the Stripe21 name and the Stripe21 network.

What it's used for

Business connectivity and voice: leased lines, FTTP and SoGEA business broadband, SIP trunks and hosted VoIP, sold to UK companies, plus CWCS's managed hosting behind it. The one PTR returned in the sample is telling on its own — lo0.asr9k01.ld8.stripe21.net is the loopback interface of a Cisco ASR 9000 edge router sited in LD8, Telehouse North in London Docklands. That is a carrier-grade router in the country's densest interconnect building, which is where a small B2B provider puts its edge if it means to peer seriously.

Notable

• Two prefixes — 212.42.0.0/19 and 194.50.108.0/24, about 8,400 addresses — plus IPv6. Small, contiguous, self-registered.
• 32 observed BGP neighbours against only 8,400 addresses. The neighbour-to-address ratio is the real signal here: this network peers far more widely than its size would suggest, consistent with a Docklands-based provider that peers at LINX rather than buying a single transit pipe.
• No subscriber-pool naming in the sample. Everything points at business customers and hosted services rather than an eyeball network.

Interesting

The ld8 in the router name is not a hostname convention the company invented — it is the industry shorthand for Telehouse North, and it shows up in the reverse DNS of dozens of unrelated UK networks for the same reason.

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

Announced prefixes

• 194.50.108.0/24
• 212.42.0.0/20
• 212.42.16.0/21
• 212.42.24.0/24
• 212.42.26.0/23
• 212.42.28.0/22
• 2a03:8840::/32

Upstream networks

• AS15510 Compuweb Communications Services Limited
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS33891 Core-Backbone GmbH
• AS8218 Zayo Infrastructure France SA
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS20562 Broadband Hosting B.V.

Adjacent networks

• AS15510 Compuweb Communications Services Limited
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS8218 Zayo Infrastructure France SA
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS33891 Core-Backbone GmbH
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS20562 Broadband Hosting B.V.

Internet exchanges

• London Network Access Point — London, United Kingdom