AS9833 HAWKNET-AS-AP HawkNet Labs Pty Ltd

AS9833 (HAWKNET-AS-AP) is held by HawkNet Labs Pty Ltd, an Australian network infrastructure company. HawkNet sells colocation, IP transit, dedicated servers, dark fibre and NBN connectivity, and it is a service-provider network rather than an enterprise's own corporate AS.

What it's used for

The routing footprint is tiny. RIS sees a single IPv4 prefix, 160.187.125.0/24 (256 addresses), no IPv6, and exactly one BGP neighbour. A single upstream and a single /24 is the smallest viable shape for a network that wants its own AS number: it means HawkNet is announcing this space through one transit provider, not multihoming it, and that whatever this AS carries is a small slice of the company's overall business rather than its main production estate.

That reading is reinforced by the fact that HawkNet Labs also operates a separate, higher-numbered ASN for its network (AS153346), which is the one listed in PeeringDB against its peering presence. AS9833 is therefore best understood as a secondary/legacy holding of the same organisation rather than its primary backbone. Cards for the two should not be conflated: the network described here is the one-prefix, one-neighbour announcement, not the company's full peering fabric.

Notable

• AS9833 is a low-numbered 2-byte ASN now in the hands of a modern, small Australian provider, so its number carries no information about the current operator's age or size.
• The organisation's peering identity sits under a 32-bit ASN, which is where its interconnection activity should be looked up.