Autonomous system
AS14697 SCS-AS - SUPERIOR CENTRAL STATION, INC.
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Superior Central Station
business enterprise infrastructure
An alarm monitoring centre, on a block whose first two numbers are one digit from the most familiar private range in existence.
What it's used for
- An alarm monitoring company's network. 512 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The whole footprint is
198.168.124.0/23, carrying the netnameSCSINC. - That netname runs the initials into the company suffix with nothing between them.
- The AS handle separates the same initials from a suffix with a hyphen.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Blocks beginning this way are misread constantly, because a single digit separates them from the range every home router uses. The result is firewall rules written for private space that accidentally cover somebody's real addresses, and support calls that take an hour to resolve.
- A central station is the place alarm signals arrive when a sensor trips anywhere its customers operate. The traffic is tiny, the availability requirement is absolute, and one upstream for the whole operation is a thinner arrangement than that suggests.
- Running the initials into the corporate suffix produces a netname that reads as one word and sorts nowhere near the company name, which defeats the purpose of having a name in the field.
- No IPv6 and nothing published in reverse DNS is entirely ordinary for this kind of business, and the right amount to disclose about a network that receives alarms.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS14860 | SMARTCOM TELEPHONE, LLC | 100 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-08, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14697- Registry name
- SCS-AS
- Registrant
- SUPERIOR CENTRAL STATION, INC.
- Abuse contact
- admin@superiorcentral.com
- Registered
- 2013-04-01
- Last changed
- 2013-04-01
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS14697
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 22 naming AS14697
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: 455 networks and 1,854 prefixes, as published 2026-11-09. 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