AS12985 TVKWSM-AS

A housing cooperative that runs its own cable television and internet network.

What it's used for

• The cable and internet operation of a Polish housing cooperative in the town of Wieluń. 2,304 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, seven observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The inventory is 31.41.136.0/21 and 91.206.180.0/24.
• The netname TVK-WSM and the full registrant name identify a housing cooperative, not a telecom.
• The registry lookup for 91.206.180.0/24 failed, so nothing here describes that block's record.
• First observed in the routing archive in July 2011.
• Three of six sampled addresses returned names, all of the form host91-206-180-64.cable.tvk.wielun.pl.

Interesting

• A housing cooperative owns the buildings and therefore the risers, ducts and roof space, which is the expensive part of any access network. Wiring the estate for television and later adding internet is a smaller step than a telecom entering the same town, and it explains why the operator here is a landlord rather than a communications company.
• The reverse names put cable and the town's name in the hostname, so every address announces both the access technology and the location. For a network this size that costs nothing and makes the whole range self-describing.
• Seven neighbours for a town-scale operator is more than the two or three that a network this size usually shows, which points to peering at a national exchange rather than buying everything from one upstream.
• A 2011 first appearance and a 31. prefix both date this to well after the era when most networks in this range started announcing.