AS11198 SE-AMS-BOS-01

SE-AMS-BOS-01 is held by Schneider Electric IT Corporation, the arm of Schneider Electric that grew out of American Power Conversion — the UPS and data-centre power company. ARIN still records the organisation at APC's old home, 132 Fairgrounds Road, West Kingston, Rhode Island, under the org handle APC-80, and the single announced prefix is registered to the APCC1 block.

What it's used for

A small corporate network segment. RIS observes exactly one IPv4 prefix, 159.215.82.0/23 (512 addresses), no IPv6, and one BGP neighbour — a single upstream. That is the profile of a specific site or service footprint, not of a company-wide backbone; Schneider Electric is a very large multinational, and almost none of its network rides this AS number.

The handle itself looks like an internal site or circuit code rather than a description of the service, which is common for enterprise ASNs and is a reminder not to read meaning into handle text. What the routing supports is only this: one self-registered /23, one upstream, no IPv6.

Notable

The APC lineage is the interesting part of the record. APC was acquired by Schneider Electric in 2007 and the AS name, org handle and IP block handle have all been carried forward from the acquired company, while the holder name has been updated. Registry artefacts like this outlive the companies that created them, and they are why an AS handle is never safe to read as a company name.

Interesting

A single /23 with one upstream means the AS number exists mainly so the block can be announced portably — the redundancy story here is thin by design.