AS11436 BCES-BCEM-01

BCES-BCEM-01 is held by Benton County Emergency Management, the county emergency-services agency for Benton County, Washington, registered at Truman Avenue in Richland in the Tri-Cities. It is a single-prefix public-sector network.

What it's used for

RIS sees exactly one IPv4 prefix, 199.233.108.0/24 — 256 addresses — with no IPv6 and two observed neighbours. The prefix is registered in ARIN to Benton County Emergency Management itself under the network handle BCEMNET, so the space is first-party: the agency that announces it also holds it.

Two neighbours is the whole story of the role. An organisation that wanted transit customers or peering would show dozens to thousands of adjacencies; two means two upstreams, taken so that the county's emergency-services connectivity survives one carrier failing. County emergency-management agencies run 911 dispatch, emergency operations centres and public-alerting systems, and those are precisely the workloads that justify the cost of provider-independent space and a BGP-speaking edge: the address block does not have to change when the upstream does, and the service stays reachable when one link goes down.

Notable

Nothing about the inventory is ambiguous. One /24, self-registered, announced by its holder, two upstreams — the shape of a small government agency's redundant internet edge, not a network operator. The absence of PTRs on the handful of addresses sampled means nothing either way; it is a sample, not a survey.

Interesting

The ARIN record for this AS number carries a 2024 date, so the low number should not be read as evidence of an early-internet network. AS numbers in this range are frequently recycled, and the current holder is what the registry describes.