AS9888 SOSYSTEMS-AS-AP Southern Ocean Systems Pty Ltd

AS9888 (SOSYSTEMS-AS-AP) is held by Southern Ocean Systems Pty Ltd, a small Australian company. Public BGP records list its website as qldvoip.com.au, and its BGP adjacencies are with Queensland networks — Dreamtilt, the Gladstone-area wireless broadband and VoIP provider ([AS7546](https://asn.ipinfo.app/AS7546)), and QLD VoIP Services Australia ([AS9449](https://asn.ipinfo.app/AS9449)). The picture is of a regional Queensland voice-and-internet operation rather than a national carrier.

What it's used for

The inventory is tiny. RIS sees 2 IPv4 prefixes carrying 512 addresses — two adjacent /24s, 103.184.174.0/24 and 103.184.175.0/24 — no IPv6, and 1 observed BGP neighbour. Two /24s and a single upstream is about as small as a routed network gets while still being worth an ASN at all. Address space of that size supports service infrastructure — softswitches, session border controllers, mail and management hosts — rather than a customer base. The AS almost certainly exists so that the operator's small block stays portable across upstream changes and can be announced independently.

Notable

• The 103.184.x space is from a recent APNIC range, not a legacy allocation, even though the ASN itself is a low-numbered one dating from the early days of APNIC assignment. The AS is old; the addresses in it are not.
• Small Australian regional providers frequently hold several ASNs across related trading entities, and the adjacencies here suggest AS9888 sits inside such a cluster rather than standing alone.
• With one neighbour, this network provides transit to nobody.