AS9119 SOFTNET-AS Internet Service Provider in Slovenia and South Europe region

SOFTNET-AS (AS9119) is SOFTNET d.o.o., a Slovenian telecommunications provider founded in 1996 and headquartered in Trzin. SoftNET has expanded across South-East Europe with offices in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, North Macedonia, Bulgaria and Romania.

What it's used for

The AS is a regional carrier: it announces ~75 IPv4 prefixes (~100k addresses) plus IPv6 and shows ~256 observed neighbours, a neighbour count far larger than its address count implies. That, plus presence at multiple exchanges (SIX, CIX, VIX, DE-CIX, HKIX) and hundreds of peering sessions, marks it as a wholesale/transit and business-connectivity carrier rather than a mass-market eyeball ISP. Products include IP transit, IP VPN, MPLS, Ethernet private line and SIP/IP-PBX voice. Sampled rDNS is first-party infrastructure naming (start.softnet.si, sn-...ntwk.softnet.si).

Notable

• The high observed-neighbour count relative to address count is the classic signature of a transit/wholesale carrier.
• Announced from this AS since around 2000; SoftNET operates its own backbone across SEE with a Tier-1 uplink.

Interesting

Despite being a mid-size operator by address count, SoftNET's dense IX presence gives it a connectivity profile closer to a carrier than a retail ISP.