AS9595 — XEPHION NTT-ME Corporation

Network type: residential

AS9595 announces 29 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,513,472 addresses and 4 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

AS9595 (XEPHION) is held by NTT-ME Corporation, an NTT East group company that runs the WAKWAK consumer ISP brand and the XePhion business internet and VPN services. The AS is PeeringDB-listed as "NTT-ME (XePhion, WAKWAK)".

What it's used for

This is a Japanese access network, not a transit carrier, and the routing figures make the distinction cleanly. RIS shows 45 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,513,472 addresses, four IPv6 blocks, and just 26 observed neighbours. A million and a half addresses behind only 26 adjacencies is the signature of an eyeball network: enormous address consumption, almost no customer cone. A wholesale carrier moving that much space would peer with hundreds of ASes. Here the addresses go to subscribers, and the AS buys transit rather than selling it.

The inventory is unusually well consolidated for its size — two /14s (123.104.0.0/14, 114.192.0.0/14), two /15s and a stack of /16s and /17s, plus 2404:1a8::/32, 2001:c90::/32, 2001:3d8::/32 and a 2408::/22. Large contiguous blocks are what an operator gets when it hands space to a subscriber pool rather than to individual sites. The reverse DNS clinches it: every sampled address, across four different parent blocks, resolves under ppp.wakwak.ne.jp with a g5.<a>-<b>-<c> pattern — textbook per-session PPP naming for an access pool.

Notable

• WAKWAK is the retail ISP; XePhion is the business-facing side, selling dedicated lines, connectivity over NTT's FLET'S access, fixed IP addresses and managed IPsec VPN. One AS carries both.
• The ppp. label persisting in modern rDNS is a legacy of the network's dial-up era naming, kept for fibre and FLET'S sessions.
• NTT-ME is a distinct network from NTT Communications' global backbone. This AS serves NTT East region customers and is not a tier-1 transit AS.

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

Announced prefixes

• 58.98.0.0/16
• 58.112.0.0/15
• 60.192.0.0/15
• 61.45.0.0/17
• 61.115.0.0/17
• 61.125.0.0/18
• 61.193.192.0/18
• 61.205.192.0/18
• 114.192.0.0/14
• 115.65.0.0/16
• 118.177.0.0/16
• 121.0.32.0/20
• 121.0.48.0/21
• 123.104.0.0/14
• 124.44.0.0/15
• 211.9.224.0/19
• 211.19.64.0/18
• 211.132.128.0/18
• 218.225.128.0/18
• 218.225.192.0/19
• 219.103.128.0/17
• 219.121.64.0/18
• 219.127.0.0/18
• 220.157.0.0/18
• 220.210.192.0/19
• 220.213.0.0/18
• 220.213.64.0/19
• 220.216.128.0/17
• 222.224.0.0/16
• 2001:3d8::/32
• 2001:c90::/32
• 2404:1a8::/32
• 2408::/22

Upstream networks

• AS2497 Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
• AS17676 SoftBank Corp.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS8966 EMIRATES TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP COMPANY (ETISALAT GROUP) PJSC
• AS4637 Telstra Global

Adjacent networks

• AS2497 Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
• AS17676 SoftBank Corp.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS4637 Telstra Global
• AS8966 EMIRATES TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP COMPANY (ETISALAT GROUP) PJSC

Internet exchanges

• BroadBand Internet eXchange Tokyo — Tokyo, Japan
• JPIX Tokyo — Tokyo, Japan
• BroadBand Internet eXchange Singapore — Singapore, Singapore
• BroadBand Internet eXchange Osaka — Osaka, Japan
• JPIX Osaka — Osaka, Japan
• BroadBand Internet eXchange Hong Kong — Hong Kong, China