AS14589 DIGITALWEST-AS - Wave Broadband

DIGITALWEST-AS is Digital West Networks, Inc. (DWNI), a regional internet and data-centre operator on California's Central Coast, headquartered in San Luis Obispo. It is a small network by prefix count (a couple of IPv4 blocks and a single IPv6 prefix, roughly 12,500 addresses) that acts as the local face of a much larger parent.

What it's used for

• Fibre and broadband access, colocation, and managed connectivity for businesses and residents around San Luis Obispo and the wider Central Coast.
• Upstream for smaller downstream networks in the region, including Wilson Creek Communications and PeakWiFi space announced from its blocks.

Notable

• Now part of Astound Broadband through Wave Broadband. The ASN keeps the DIGITALWEST-AS name and Digital West Networks, Inc. IRR description, but the ARIN registrant org is Wave Broadband and the NOC and abuse contacts are Astound Broadband (noc@astound.com). It peers almost exclusively with Wave Broadband.
• This is why searching for Astound or Wave surfaces this network: the Digital West brand is the local retail name for what is now Astound/Wave infrastructure on the Central Coast.

Interesting

• Digital West predates the acquisition by two decades (the AS was first registered in 2000), and it ran its own San Luis Obispo data centre long before the Wave/Astound consolidation. The keep-the-name pattern is common when a national cable operator absorbs a well-regarded local ISP: the number and description stay put while the registrant org and operations move to the parent.