AS4282 CENTURYLINK-TSDS-FLFTMY

CENTURYLINK-TSDS-FLFTMY is one of a series of metro-scoped autonomous systems run by CenturyLink Communications, LLC (now part of Lumen). The TSDS element is an internal CenturyLink service code; the suffix identifies the market — here, Fort Myers, Florida.

What it's used for

• Consumer and small-business broadband in the Fort Myers area. Reverse DNS on the address space lands in dhcp.centurylinkservices.net and embarqhsd.net, marking it as dynamically assigned subscriber access rather than servers or transit.

Notable

• An "eyeball" network — the addresses here are homes and small offices on DSL and fibre, not hosted content.
• embarqhsd.net ("Embarq High Speed Data") is a reminder of lineage: Embarq was the local-telephone business spun out of Sprint, which CenturyTel merged with in 2009 to create CenturyLink. Fort Myers sits in that legacy territory.

Interesting

• CenturyLink runs a whole family of these TSDS ASNs, one per market, rather than announcing subscriber space from a single national AS. Siblings include [AS4283](https://asn.ipinfo.app/AS4283) (Las Vegas) and [AS4284](https://asn.ipinfo.app/AS4284) (Tallahassee).