AS3327 CITIC CITIC Telecom CPC Netherlands B.V.

CITIC is the European network of CITIC Telecom CPC, a Hong Kong-headquartered

managed-network and ICT services provider. The Dutch entity operates a transit

and enterprise network across the Baltics, Central and Eastern Europe.

What it's used for

• IP transit sold to downstream operators and enterprises, with customer-settable BGP communities for traffic engineering — the signature of a carrier network.
• Managed connectivity, VPN and cloud services for corporate customers, many of them in Estonia and the wider Baltic region.

Notable

• Peers at a long list of exchanges including AMS-IX, DE-CIX, LINX, Netnod and the Baltic IXPs, which is how a mid-sized carrier keeps latency down across a scattered footprint.
• The European operation was assembled from an older regional carrier's business rather than built from scratch, which is how a Hong Kong group ended up holding a low European AS number.

Interesting

• The routing registry entry for this AS is unusually detailed, publishing its peers, upstreams and community scheme in full — a habit from the era when the routing registry, not a website, was how you documented a network.