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Smartcom Telephone Network

Smartcom Telephone was allocated it’s own IPv4 and IPv6 addresses directly from ARIN, the American Registry for Internet Numbers, and maintains a Backbone Network operating worldwide on the single AS14860 autonomous system number (ASN). Smartcom owns and maintains all of its own fiber network, servers and routing gear.

Smartcom Telephone currently maintains diverse IP Transit connections to the Internet. Smartcom Telephone is also the only privately owned and operated Internet Service Provider in the South Texas Region with 2 diverse connections to the Public Internet Exchange Peering Points in Dallas, TX, Washington, DC and San Jose, CA with 100+ Peering Sessions.

General Network Information

Smartcom validates IP address ranges directly with ARIN.

ASN: AS14860

IPv6 Support

Smartcom Telephone has /32 IPv6 allocation from ARIN in the American region. Our backbone and customer edge routers are all dual stacked with IPv6.

Peering Policy Information

Smartcom maintains an open peering policy and does not require a signed peering agreement with any client. The company does, however, expect that its peers adhere to these straightforward policies: Peers must maintain a 24x7x365 NOC which can be contacted either by phone or email. The given NOC must have a clear escalation path to identify and resolve network problems and DoS attacks sourcing from their network. There is no minimum traffic ratio required, but peers must maintain ample capacity to ensure no latency is incurred due to link saturation. Peers must not configure a default route, a static route or other means to send traffic to Smartcom for a route that is not advertised by Smartcom at that interconnection point. Smartcom reserves the right to temporarily or permanently suspend any or all peering within any network without prior notice if that peer is causing operational damage to the inbound/outbound traffic of Smartcom. To peer with us, simply send request to peering@smartcomtelephone.com with your ASN.

DNS Servers

If Smartcom is going to manage your DNS for you, you will have to contact your current domain registrar (the place where you purchased your domain) and face the settings for the name-servers so they point to Smartcom. The name-servers that you’ll use for any part of our platform are:

ns1.sc2000.net – 64.88.192.20
ns2.sc2000.net – 64.88.192.21

How AS14860 is Connected to the World by (bgp.he.net)