Autonomous system
AS10231 TECHTRANS-AP Tech-trans System Ltd.
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Tech-Trans System
business enterprise systems-integrator
TECHTRANS-AP is Tech-Trans System Ltd., a Hong Kong technology firm established in 1995 and based in Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon. It builds and runs retail-management systems for retailers in Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China, with several hundred engineers, developers and consultants across offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and elsewhere.
What it's used for
- Corporate and service-delivery connectivity for a systems integrator: the platforms from which Tech-Trans implements, hosts and remotely supports point-of-sale and retail back-office systems for its customers, plus its own staff estate.
- RIS sees 7 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,792 addresses — seven individual /24s out of the legacy
202.85.192.0block (.192through.197, plus.201) — no IPv6, and 1 observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- Enterprise, not a provider. One BGP adjacency is the whole argument. A network that sold connectivity, transit or public hosting would have downstream ASes and a second upstream for resilience; this one has a single path to the internet, which is what an end-site buys. Under two thousand addresses reinforces it: too little to be an eyeball ISP or a hosting business, about right for a company running its own servers, VPN concentrators and managed-service endpoints.
- The
-APhandle suffix is an APNIC convention, not a hint about the network's role, and the word System in the name is likewise not evidence. The identification here rests on the registered Hong Kong company and the routing shape, both of which point at an integrator's own network rather than a carrier.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS10103 | HK Broadband Network Ltd. | 406 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 1.79K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| HK | Hong Kong | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS10231- Registry name
- TECHTRANS-AP
- Registrant
- Tech-trans Telecom Ltd
- Abuse contact
- internet@tech-trans.com
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-09-02
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 7 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS10231
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 7 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS10231
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 443 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-24. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere