AS7722 TELPACIFIC-AS-AP TELPACIFIC PL

TELPACIFIC-AS-AP belongs to Tel. Pacific Pty Ltd of Sydney, an Australian telecommunications company. The listed parent trades today as TPC Consolidated Limited, having started life as Tel.Pacific Limited.

What it's used for

• It announces a scattering of /24s carved out of a /19 registered in APNIC under the netname RIVERNET, held by Tel. Pacific Pty Ltd.
• The AS is a leaf: one upstream (a large international carrier's Australian network) and no downstream networks at all. It exists to hold and announce the company's own address space, not to sell transit.
• Tel.Pacific's telecom business was built on discount international calling, VoIP and mobile resale aimed at Australia's migrant communities, so the space would carry that company's service and corporate infrastructure.

Notable

• There is no reverse DNS on the announced space. Nothing here looks like a subscriber pool — no dsl-, pppoe- or dyn- style naming anywhere — so this should not be read as consumer broadband address space despite the telco name.
• The company's centre of gravity has shifted markedly: TPC Consolidated's main business is now CovaU, an Australian energy and utilities retailer. What remains routed on AS7722 is a small legacy telecom footprint rather than an active growing network.
• With about 2,500 addresses and a single upstream, this is a minor network. Weighting it by the prestige of its low AS number would badly misjudge its size.

Interesting

• The RIVERNET netname on the parent block has no obvious connection to the Tel.Pacific brand — a reminder that APNIC netnames often preserve an earlier owner or an earlier product line long after the business has moved on.