AS11080 YKWC

Despite the far-northern name, YKWC is Yellowknife Wireless Company, LLC of Bend, Oregon — a fixed-wireless broadband provider (WISP) serving Central Oregon. ARIN records the AS to org handle YWCL at 1259 NE 2nd St, Bend, and the company's own site describes radio-delivered internet to homes and businesses around Bend, Redmond, Prineville, Madras, Sisters and La Pine.

What it's used for

Regional last-mile access. The AS announces 7 IPv4 prefixes (~4,096 addresses) and a single IPv6 /36, and is seen with only 2 observed neighbours in RIS — the signature of an edge network buying transit rather than selling it. That address count is tiny in absolute terms but entirely normal for a rural WISP, whose subscribers sit behind a small pool of routable space.

Notable

The prefix registrations tell the story of a network assembled from Oregon pieces rather than handed down in one block. Only some of the space is registered to YWCL/YKNET; the rest sits under separate ARIN handles (RELLIM, HOLLAND, APLATFORM/PLATFORM1), and the sampled reverse DNS matches — mail1.ykwc.com and mail2.ykwc.com alongside PTRs under coinet.com and rellim.com. First-party rDNS on the operator's own blocks plus small, findable US registrants on the rest reads as a local ISP carrying long-standing legacy and partner assignments, not as leased address inventory.

Interesting

The name is a genuine head-fake: nothing here touches Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Handle-to-geography guesses fail regularly in this range — treat the registered address, not the word, as the fact.