AS7349 AS-TIERP-7349

AS-TIERP-7349 is registered to TierPoint, LLC, the Saint Louis-headquartered data-centre operator that runs colocation, private cloud, disaster-recovery and managed IT services from dozens of facilities across the United States. TierPoint grew largely by acquiring regional providers, and this ASN is one of the numbers that came with them.

What it's used for

• Very little, as it turns out. This AS announces a single /24 — 256 addresses — which is a rounding error next to TierPoint's actual footprint. The company's production networks live on other AS numbers.
• The one routed prefix is not even TierPoint's own allocation: it is sub-assigned out of Charter/Spectrum space to a third-party organisation, and its reverse DNS still resolves under biz.spectrum.com.

Notable

• The operator is unambiguously a hosting and colocation business, but the address space this particular AS routes does not look like colocation space, so treat any classification of it as provisional.
• Registered with ARIN in November 1996, decades before TierPoint existed under that name — a legacy number inherited through acquisition and never retired.