AS8380 TU-EUROPA-PL-AS1

TU-EUROPA-PL-AS1 belongs to Towarzystwo Ubezpieczen na Zycie Europa S.A., a

Polish life-insurance company based on ul. Powstancow Slaskich in Wroclaw. The

AS exists to multi-home the insurer's own corporate network.

What it's used for

• The company's internal and customer-facing systems: policy administration, online quoting and servicing, and the links to the banks and brokers that distribute its products.
• Announcing a single provider-independent /24, 91.213.88.0/24, registered directly to the insurer, over a small number of Polish upstreams.

Notable

• A corporate enterprise AS, not a service provider. There is no subscriber or hosting space here. The address block should geolocate to a company, not to end users, and the entire inventory is one /24.
• Provider-independent space plus a private AS number is the classic setup for a regulated financial firm that wants to change carriers without renumbering, and wants its own routing policy for availability reasons.

Interesting

• The low AS number is misleading here. The AS and its address block were both registered in 2009, and the organisation object was created days earlier, so this is a reissued number rather than an early-internet allocation. Low numbers freed up by defunct holders get handed out again, and an insurance company in Wroclaw is exactly the kind of modern holder that ends up with one.