AS11940 DIRECTSCOM

DIRECTSCOM is Direct Supply, Inc. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a supplier of equipment, e-procurement and technology to senior-living and long-term-care operators. The ASN carries the company's own network and nobody else's.

What it's used for

RIS shows four IPv4 prefixes totalling 1,280 addresses, no IPv6, and four observed BGP neighbours. Four upstreams for five /24s worth of space is a deliberately resilient enterprise, which fits a business whose customers place orders through its systems: an outage is lost revenue, so the connectivity is over-provisioned relative to the address count. A provider network with this many customers would show far more neighbours.

The registrations are worth reading closely, because the prefixes come from three different sources and every one still resolves to the holder. 8.9.32.0/23 is registered as LVLT-DIRECT-17-8-9-32, org Direct Supply, Inc., a reassignment out of Level 3's 8/8. 12.43.32.0/24 is DIRECT-S753-32, org DIRECT SUPPLY, out of AT&T's 12/8. The 74.116.50.0/24 and 74.116.51.0/24 pair is registered as DIRECTSUPPLY directly to the company. Carrier-assigned space plus its own allocation, all in the holder's name: no third-party registrants, so nothing about this inventory suggests leased or brokered address space despite prefixes appearing under two large carriers' blocks.

Notable

The name is generic enough to mislead. Direct Supply is not a carrier or a wholesaler of connectivity but a healthcare-procurement company, and the network is sized and shaped exactly like one.