AS9408 — GJAMES-AS-AP G. James Australia Pty. Ltd.

AS9408 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,280 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

AS9408 (GJAMES-AS-AP) is held by G.James Australia Pty. Ltd., the corporate entity behind G.James Glass & Aluminium — a family-owned Australian manufacturer headquartered at Eagle Farm in Brisbane, Queensland. G.James processes glass (laminated, toughened and insulated units), extrudes aluminium, and fabricates windows, doors and building façades, with plants and branches across the country. It is a manufacturer, not a service provider of any kind.

What it's used for

This is a corporate enterprise network, and the routing says so unambiguously. RIS observes 4 IPv4 prefixes totalling 1,280 addresses, no IPv6, and 4 observed BGP neighbours. The announcements are 203.0.156.0/22 with two /23s carved out of it, plus a separate legacy 192.69.116.0/24. Roughly a thousand usable addresses is the scale of one company's own estate — head office, factories, branch sites, whatever internet-facing services it runs — and four neighbours means it is multi-homed for resilience across a small number of Australian upstreams rather than peering with the wider internet. Nothing here suggests customer access, hosting or transit.

Notable

• The reason a glass manufacturer runs its own ASN is portability and resilience: an independently-numbered network can switch or dual-home its ISPs without renumbering the sites behind it. For a company with plants in several states, that is worth the modest overhead.
• The 192.69.116.0/24 is a very early allocation, from the same era as the 192.x swamp space; it predates the company's other holdings.
• Four upstreams for 1,280 addresses is a notably conservative, resilience-first design for an industrial firm.

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

Announced prefixes

• 192.69.116.0/24
• 203.0.156.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS1221 Telstra Limited
• AS49915 Megaport (UK) Limited
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS4608 Asia Pacific Network Information Centre

Adjacent networks

• AS1221 Telstra Limited
• AS49915 Megaport (UK) Limited
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS4608 Asia Pacific Network Information Centre

Internet exchanges

• Megaport IX Brisbane — Brisbane, Australia