AS11902 WORLD-LINK

WORLD-LINK is World-Link Communications, Inc. of Framingham, Massachusetts — a maritime satellite communications provider that runs shore-side hubs on Inmarsat, Intelsat and Iridium and sells connectivity to commercial vessels. ARIN registers the ASN to the company's 1101 Worcester Road address, first assigned in 1999 and last touched in 2025.

What it's used for

The routing is tiny and entirely first-party: RIS sees 2 IPv4 prefixes totalling 512 addresses (198.44.198.0/24 and 198.44.199.0/24), no IPv6, and 1 observed neighbour. Both /24s are registered to World-Link Communications itself, so the announcing party and the registrant are the same entity — none of the multi-registrant, multi-RIR scatter that marks leased or brokered address space.

A single upstream and half a kilo-address is the shape of a service company's own edge rather than a subscriber network. The address space is where the teleport side of a maritime service lives: the hub that terminates satellite links from ships, the NOC and support systems that watch them, and the public-facing corporate infrastructure. The vessels themselves sit behind the satellite links; they do not need to be visible in BGP for the service to work, which is why a provider serving well over a thousand ships can do it from two /24s.

Notable

Name-checking matters here. Several unrelated companies use "WorldLink", including Nepal's largest consumer ISP; the ARIN postal address is what pins this AS to the Massachusetts maritime operator rather than any of them.