AS6391 URBAN-15-AS

URBAN-15-AS is registered to Beanfield Technologies Inc. of Toronto. The handle preserves its origin: the AS came from Urban Communications / Urbanfibre, the Burnaby, British Columbia fibre operator that Beanfield acquired in July 2022. Its address space still serves the Greater Vancouver network.

What it's used for

• Fibre connectivity in the Greater Vancouver area over the former Urbanfibre network, whose customers include municipalities such as the City of Vancouver and the City of Coquitlam.
• Business and multi-tenant building connectivity, plus some hosted and colocated services within the announced ranges.

Notable

The customer mix is institutional and commercial — city governments, businesses and building networks — rather than a mass-market residential pool, which is why the address count is modest for an ISP. Reverse DNS across the space is heterogeneous, pointing at individual customer and hosted systems rather than uniform subscriber pools.

Beanfield builds and owns its own fibre in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver; this AS is specifically the Vancouver-region asset, not Beanfield's main Ontario network.

Interesting

The AS registration predates the acquisition by well over a decade, so the number rides with the network rather than the brand — a common pattern in Canadian fibre consolidation, and a reason the registered holder name and the reverse DNS can disagree.