AS6524 OPENTEXT-NA-US-BROOKPARK-2

OPENTEXT-NA-US-BROOKPARK-2 is registered to GXS, the business-to-business transaction network now owned by OpenText. The handle refers to a Brook Park, Ohio site.

What it's used for

• Infrastructure for a B2B and electronic-data-interchange (EDI) network: the systems that move purchase orders, invoices and other trading-partner documents between enterprises. This is a corporate service network, not consumer or general hosting.
• The announced prefixes carry the netnames GXS and EASYLINK-NET, the latter a remnant of EasyLink Services, which GXS acquired before OpenText's own acquisition.

Notable

• The lineage runs deep: GE Information Services was founded by General Electric in 1967 as a computer time-sharing and EDI business, was rebranded GXS in 2000, spun out of GE in 2002, and was acquired by OpenText in 2014. The portfolio is now part of OpenText's Business Network.
• The ASN itself is a genuine 1996 ARIN registration, consistent with a network that predates the commercial web.

Interesting

• The registry name says OpenText while the registrant organisation still says GXS, and the address blocks still say EasyLink. Three decades of acquisitions are legible in the records without a single one being mentioned explicitly.