AS11966 GLOBALDATASYSTEMS-ASN

GLOBALDATASYSTEMS-ASN is Global Data Systems, a managed IT and managed

connectivity provider headquartered at 310 Laser Lane in Lafayette, Louisiana,

with offices elsewhere in Louisiana and in Houston. It sells managed networks,

voice, security and cloud to businesses — healthcare, oil and gas, and marine

transportation are its stated verticals — rather than selling consumer

broadband.

What it's used for

• Managed enterprise connectivity. The AS announces eight IPv4 prefixes, about 5,900 addresses. The largest, 74.114.104.0/21 and 199.189.184.0/22, are registered directly to Global Data Systems and named GLOBAL-DATA-SYSTEMS-INTERNET-SERVICE; those are the company's own service blocks.
• The remaining prefixes are registered to Global Reach, LLC and CC Technologies under LCG-LUS-CUST-* netnames — reassignments out of the Lafayette Consolidated Government / LUS Fiber municipal network. This is the ordinary shape of a provider announcing customer and partner space in its home city, not the multi-RIR, unrelated-registrant pattern that marks leased or brokered address space. Everything here is ARIN, and everything is Louisiana.
• No IPv6 is announced from this AS.

Notable

• Six observed neighbours: a regional provider that buys transit and serves a local customer base, with no wholesale peering business of its own.
• ARIN registered the ASN to GDS in 1999, and the company still holds it — one of the cases in this range where the low number does reflect a long-lived operator.