Autonomous system
AS11966 GLOBALDATASYSTEMS-ASN
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Global Data Systems Inc.
enterprise isp legacy
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,
74.114.104.0/21and199.189.184.0/22, are registered directly to Global Data Systems and namedGLOBAL-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.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-20, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 5.89K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11966- Registry name
- GLOBALDATASYSTEMS-ASN
- Registrant
- GLOBAL DATA SYSTEMS INC.
- Abuse contact
- mathewp@getgds.com
- Registered
- 1999-02-16
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- GLOBAL DATA SYSTEMS
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 8 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS11966
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS11966
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,778 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere