AS7629 EPLDT-AS-AP 5F L.V. Locsin Bldg

EPLDT-AS-AP is ePLDT Inc., the ICT and data-centre arm of the Philippine carrier PLDT. It is the enterprise side of the group, not the consumer broadband network.

What it's used for

• Colocation, cloud and managed hosting out of the VITRO data centres, ePLDT's facility brand. The parent netblocks behind this ASN — 125.5.0.0/16, 202.163.224.0/19, 45.118.36.0/22 — are registered to VITRO INC. of Makati.
• Enterprise and small-business connectivity. Within those blocks sit many tiny /29 sub-assignments to named Philippine organisations and businesses, from savings-and-loan associations to single-site companies. That is leased-line and static-IP customer space, not a subscriber pool.

Notable

• The registry "name" is a street address, not a company name. The APNIC record for AS7629 reads 5F L.V. Locsin Bldg, Makati Avenue cor. Ayala Avenue, Makati City with the remark "for peering purposes". Only the EPLDT handle identifies the holder.
• Do not confuse this with PLDT's residential eyeball network. AS7629 addresses belong to businesses and hosted systems.
• Beware the neighbouring 222.126.128.0/17, which this ASN does not announce: it is registered to Pacnet Business Solutions in Shenzhen and carries entirely unrelated rDNS. Only 222.126.0.0/17 is ePLDT's.

Interesting

• The VITRO estate is the largest data-centre footprint in the Philippines, and its Sta. Rosa site is the country's first hyperscale, GPU-equipped facility.