AS11568 CGI-REGINA-1

CGI-REGINA-1 belongs to CGI Inc., the Montreal-headquartered IT and business-consulting firm, and the handle names the site: Regina, Saskatchewan, where CGI runs an office and a data centre supporting outsourcing work for Saskatchewan clients including the provincial health sector. RIS sees 3 IPv4 prefixes, about 1,024 addresses, no IPv6, and a single observed BGP neighbour.

What it's used for

A site-level enterprise edge for an IT outsourcer: CGI's own corporate connectivity in Regina and the managed-services and hosted systems it operates there for clients. Three small blocks and one upstream is an end-site, not a service-provider network — an outsourcer of CGI's size delivers most client work over private circuits and out of large facilities announced from other numbers, so what this AS exposes is one location's public footprint.

Notable

The three prefixes register to three different-looking orgs: CGI RDC (NET-CGI-RDC-03), CGI Information Systems (CGI-NET) and CGI Information Systems and Management Consulting (CGIGROUP-AB). These are all CGI. The last is the company's Canadian operating entity's full legal name, and the variation is registration history inside one group, not the several-unrelated-registrant pattern that would suggest leased or brokered address space. Intra-group registrants are the single most common false positive when reading a prefix-registrant list, and this is a textbook case.

Interesting

The RDC in NET-CGI-RDC-03 and the numbered suffix suggest a series of blocks assigned per data centre, of which this AS announces one. It is a good example of how a global services company's routing fragments by site: the brand is one of the largest IT firms in the world, and the AS behind its name in this range carries a thousand addresses.