AS3766 SSC-299-Z-3766

SSC-299-Z-3766 is held by Shared Services Canada (SSC), the federal agency that

provides IT infrastructure — networks, data centres, and email — to departments

across the Government of Canada.

What it's used for

• Federal government networking: connectivity for departments and agencies whose IT infrastructure SSC consolidated and now operates centrally.
• Announces a large legacy IPv4 footprint, on the order of several hundred thousand addresses, on behalf of the federal enterprise.

Notable

• This is government address space. Hosts here belong to federal departments and their internal systems, so traffic from this ASN is public-sector rather than commercial or consumer.
• SSC was created in 2011 to centralise IT across the federal government, which means it inherited address space and AS numbers that had been assigned to individual departments years earlier. The current holder is newer than the allocation.

Interesting

• Consolidating dozens of departmental networks under a single operator is one of the largest such exercises anywhere in government IT, and it is why one ASN now fronts address space that once sat behind many separate organisations.