AS9646 EGIOS-AS eGIOS

AS9646 (eGIOS-AS-KR) is held by eGIOS, a Seoul-based outsourcing company whose business is contact-centre and telemarketing services. Its registered address in Eulji-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul matches the RIR contact for the AS.

What it's used for

The routing evidence points squarely at a single-site corporate network rather than a provider. RIS sees 4 IPv4 prefixes totalling 1,024 addresses and no IPv6, learned through only 2 observed neighbours. The four prefixes — 211.47.160.0/24 through 211.47.163.0/24 — are contiguous and together form one aligned /22, so this is a single assignment deaggregated into /24s rather than a collection of blocks accumulated over time. A pair of upstreams with a /22 behind them is what a company runs when it wants provider independence and dual-homed resilience but has no ambition to sell connectivity to anyone else.

That profile fits the business: an outsourced call-centre operator is unusually dependent on always-on connectivity, because a dropped link means agents cannot take calls or reach the client systems they are working in. Multihoming a small block under its own ASN is a cheap way to remove a single carrier as a point of failure.

Notable

• Two upstreams and 1,024 addresses put this firmly in the enterprise category, despite the ISP-ish look of a Korean 211.47.x block.