AS9540 VELOCIXLIMITED-AS-AP VELOCIX LIMITED

AS9540 (VELOCIXLIMITED-AS-AP) is held by Velocix Limited, a London-headquartered software company that builds carrier-grade video streaming and CDN platforms — origin servers, cloud DVR, content delivery and analytics — sold to telecom and cable operators. Despite the low, legacy AS number, this particular AS is Velocix's Indian presence, and its PeeringDB record places it in Chennai.

What it's used for

The routing evidence describes a compact content-delivery footprint, not a service provider network. RIS sees only 2 IPv4 prefixes — 103.131.48.0/24 and 103.131.49.0/24, 512 addresses in total — plus one IPv6 /48 (2001:df7:100::/48). Two BGP neighbours are observed. There is no aggregation to speak of, no subscriber-scale address space, and no sign of a transit business.

PeeringDB lists the network at Extreme IX Chennai for public peering and Nxtra Data Chennai DC 1 as its interconnection facility, with an open peering policy and traffic in the 1–5 Gbps range. Read together, this is a CDN edge or origin deployment: a small block of addresses in one Indian metro, peering openly at a local exchange so that content is delivered cheaply and close to the eyeball networks that consume it. The open peering policy is characteristic of a content network — a CDN wants as many direct paths to viewers as it can get, and gives peering away to obtain them.

Notable

• Velocix's business is selling CDN and streaming software to operators, so an AS like this serves the company's own delivery infrastructure rather than a retail customer base.
• The open peering policy and single-metro presence are consistent with a content node, not a distributed platform.