AS11222 PRL

PRL is Ralph Lauren Corporation — the initials are Polo Ralph Lauren, the fashion company's older corporate name. ARIN registers the ASN to a Lyndhurst, New Jersey address, one of the company's operational sites, with an ASN record dating from 2009.

What it's used for

Corporate enterprise networking for a global apparel and retail business: offices, distribution and back-office systems, and the edge through which the company reaches its carriers. The AS announces 4 contiguous IPv4 /24s — 74.113.64.0/24 through 74.113.67.0/24, 1,024 addresses in total — with no IPv6 and 4 observed BGP neighbours. Four neighbours is enterprise multihoming for resilience across a couple of carriers, not a peering posture.

Notable

All four prefixes are registered to PRL itself, so the AS holder and the address holder are the same company. That matters: a retailer's routed space is exactly the kind of block that gets sublet or leased out, and the registry here shows no third party anywhere in the picture. The four /24s are adjacent and would aggregate to a 74.113.64.0/22; announcing them separately is a routine way to keep per-/24 flexibility across the multihomed links.

Interesting

The routed footprint is tiny for a company of Ralph Lauren's size, and that is the point worth drawing out. A modern retail brand's customer-facing traffic — e-commerce, media, store connectivity — lives on CDNs, cloud platforms and carrier-managed circuits, none of which appear in the brand's own ASN. What is left in PRL's announcements is the corporate edge, so the network's size tells you nothing about the business behind it.