AS9703 SHB-AS Shinhan Bank

AS9703 (SHB-AS-KR) is held by Shinhan Bank, one of South Korea's largest commercial banks and the core banking subsidiary of Shinhan Financial Group. This is the bank's own network, run for its own systems.

What it's used for

Everything here says corporate edge rather than service provider. RIS sees 8 IPv4 prefixes carrying 2,048 addresses, no IPv6, and 2 observed neighbours. Two upstreams gives the bank redundancy without any of the peering breadth a transit network would show, and 2,048 addresses is a fraction of what even a small ISP needs. The prefixes are eight individual /24s pulled from four unrelated Korean blocks (125.130.60.0/24 and .61.0/24, 106.241.47-49, 210.124.93 and 210.124.200, and 14.36.211), with only small runs of contiguity. That pattern is characteristic of a long-established enterprise that has taken address space from different providers at different times rather than receiving one clean allocation. The likely contents are the bank's internet-facing services, online and mobile banking front ends, mail, and connectivity for branch and partner links.

Notable

• Shinhan Bank sits under Shinhan Financial Group, one of Korea's big financial holding companies, alongside its card, securities and insurance arms. Those affiliates generally do not ride this AS.
• Korean banks are subject to strict financial-sector network separation rules, so an internet-facing AS of this size typically fronts only the externally reachable tier, with core banking systems on segregated internal networks that never appear in BGP.
• No IPv6 is announced.