AS10146 FORD-MOTOR-CO-SG-AP Ford Motor Company

FORD-MOTOR-CO-SG-AP is Ford Motor Company's Asia-Pacific autonomous system, registered through APNIC with a Singapore presence. It is a corporate network belonging to the carmaker itself.

What it's used for

Ford's own regional connectivity: office and plant egress, VPN concentration, and internet-facing corporate services in Asia-Pacific. The AS announces 3 IPv4 prefixes totalling 2,304 addresses plus one IPv6 /48 (2620:0:440::/48). Two of the three IPv4 prefixes — 19.12.32.0/22 and 19.12.52.0/22 — are carved out of 19.0.0.0/8, the legacy class-A network Ford has held since the 1980s, while 103.147.129.0/24 is a modern APNIC assignment picked up for the regional operation. That mix of a slice of a private /8 and a small local block is a very typical Fortune-500 pattern: global address wealth, but a locally sourced prefix where a regional site needed one.

Notable

This is an enterprise network, and the numbers settle it. 2,304 addresses across three prefixes with 6 observed BGP neighbours is a company multihoming its own sites; a wholesale carrier would peer with hundreds of ASes and a hosting provider would sell far more space. Geolocate this to Ford corporate facilities in the region, not to consumers or servers-for-hire.

Interesting

Ford is one of the small club of pre-CIDR corporations sitting on an entire /8. Only a couple of /22s of it show up here, so the vast majority of 19/8 remains unannounced.