AS11522 SUD-WIREDAS

SUD-WIREDAS is Greater Sudbury Telecommunications Inc., which trades as Agilis Networks, a B2B fibre operator in Northern Ontario and part of the Greater Sudbury Utilities group of companies.

What it's used for

• Business connectivity across Northern Ontario. Agilis runs its own fibre-optic MPLS network and sells fibre internet, voice, Transparent LAN Service, dark fibre, and hosting to institutional and business customers, with coverage described as running from Sault Ste. Marie through Sudbury and North Bay south toward Barrie and Toronto.
• RIS sees 2 announced IPv4 prefixes totalling 16,640 addresses, no IPv6, and 14 observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The neighbour count is what distinguishes this from an enterprise. Fourteen observed neighbours against only two prefixes is far more interconnection than an end site needs, and it is consistent with a regional carrier that peers at exchange points and interconnects with other Ontario networks. It is still well short of the hundreds-to-thousands a wholesale transit network shows, so this reads as a regional access and metro-fibre operator, not a backbone.
• Almost all the address space is a single 216.223.64.0/18 registered to Greater Sudbury Telecommunications under the AGILIS-NETWORKS handle. That is the operator's own pool.

Interesting

• The second prefix, 142.40.38.0/24, is registered not to the ISP but to Vale Canada Limited under the handle INCO. This is not third-party or leased space; it is local industrial history. Inco was the Sudbury nickel miner that Vale acquired, and a mining company that large is exactly the kind of anchor customer a municipally-owned Sudbury carrier would announce provider-independent space for. A registrant that differs from the holder is only a warning sign when the registrants are genuinely unrelated to each other and to the network's business, and a Sudbury ISP carrying Sudbury's biggest employer is the opposite of unrelated.