AS11462 ARAMARK-CA-TORHQ

ARAMARK-CA-TORHQ is held by Aramark, the food service, facilities and uniform services company headquartered at 2400 Market Street, Philadelphia. It is a one-prefix enterprise AS: a single /24 (161.195.134.0/24), 256 addresses, one observed BGP neighbour.

What it's used for

Corporate edge connectivity, nothing more. Aramark is a very large company, but almost none of its operation is internet-facing address space — it runs kitchens, cafeterias and facilities contracts inside other people's buildings. What an AS number buys a company like this is provider independence at the head-office edge: hold your own /24, announce it yourself, and switching carriers costs a BGP session rather than a renumbering project. A single observed neighbour says there is no transit business here and no meaningful peering; the AS exists to own the route, not to move other people's traffic.

Notable

The handle is the interesting part. ARAMARK-CA-TORHQ reads as Aramark Canada, Toronto HQ — the AS number appears to have been requested for the Canadian arm's head office. The registry records point the other way: the ARIN org for the ASN is Aramark in Philadelphia, and the /24 registers to Aramark Services, Inc., also Philadelphia. Registrant and holder are the same corporate group either way, so there is no third-party-registrant question to answer here; only the geography is muddied, and the address records put it in the United States.

Interesting

The /24 was registered with ARIN in January 1993 — genuinely old address space, and a reminder that the prefix and the AS number can have quite different histories.