AS9653 SUNPHARMA59-IN Acme Plaza

AS9653 (SUNPHARMA59-IN) is held by Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, the Indian pharmaceutical company. As with several APNIC objects of this era, the registry "name" is really a street address: "Acme Plaza" is the building on Andheri-Kurla Road, Andheri (East), Mumbai that has served as Sun Pharma's corporate office. The handle itself carries the company name.

What it's used for

This is about as small as a routed network gets. RIS sees a single IPv4 prefix, 202.3.64.0/24 — 256 addresses — no IPv6, and 1 observed neighbour. One prefix behind one upstream is barely multihoming at all; it is a company that obtained an ASN and a /24 so that its public presence would be independent of any one provider's address space, and then never needed more.

For a large manufacturer that is unremarkable. Corporate estates of this kind run overwhelmingly on private addressing behind NAT, and the routable footprint only has to cover the handful of things that must be reachable from the outside: mail gateways, VPN concentrators, a few externally published services. There is no hosting, no customer inventory and no access network here. The single-neighbour count rules out any transit role outright.

Notable

• The registry object names a building, not a business. Card the handle (SUNPHARMA) and the address together and the identification is unambiguous, but "Acme Plaza" alone would be a dead end.
• A /24 and one upstream is the minimum viable routed presence, and is common for large non-tech corporates whose networks are almost entirely private.