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Autonomous system

AS12446 ESS-NET-AS

Unclassified RIPE

IPv4 addresses 512 2 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 0 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly RO
Exchanges 0 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 1 0 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

SES Services Romania

Romania · AI-generated

media enterprise

The Romanian arm of a satellite operator's media services business.

What it's used for

  • Broadcast services connectivity. 512 addresses in two /24s with a single observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

  • 194.102.101.0/24 is netname SES-SERVICES-ROMANIA, and the abuse contact belongs to MX1 C.E.E SA — the media services brand, with the regional suffix for Central and Eastern Europe.
  • The AS handle is ESS-NET-AS, which matches neither name.
  • First seen in routing data in September 2001.

Interesting

  • Satellite operators sell two things: capacity on a spacecraft, and the ground work of getting a television channel onto it. The second business is the one that needs a network — playout, encoding, subtitling and delivery all happen in a building, and this AS is what that building connects through.
  • One neighbour and 512 addresses for a facility of that kind is the expected shape. Broadcast contribution and distribution move over dedicated circuits and satellite links, not over the public internet, so the routed footprint stays small no matter how much video passes through.

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

Full topology · Graph

Internet exchanges

No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.

Transit providers

1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS12684SES ASTRA S.A.118

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-16, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.

Address space

Summary

Shape and geography

IPv4 2 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
RORomania2

Registry

Allocation record

RIPE · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
RIPE
Handle
AS12446
Registry name
ESS-NET-AS
Registrant
AS12446-MNT
Abuse contact
abuse@ines.ro
Registered
1970-01-01
Last changed
2017-11-15
Allocation
allocated

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
50% valid · 1 valid, 1 with no ROA
ROAs
1 authorising AS12446
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
Route objects
2 naming AS12446

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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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

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