Tasmania · network infrastructure

Recorded capacity in Tasmania spreads over five cities rather than sitting in one building. TAS01 Hobart, in Dowsing Point, carries four networks. 42 -24 Cambridge carries three, PIPE Networks Hobart and 42-24 Derwent Park in Moonah carry two each, and Firmus LST01 in St Leonards carries one. Hobart holds both exchanges, EdgeIX - Hobart with seven participants and IX Australia Hobart (TAS-IX) with five. Networks present in the state can hand traffic to each other in Hobart, though with twelve presences and twelve peers recorded, plenty of Tasmanian traffic still leaves for mainland exchanges.

An address block reads as Tasmanian because the operator registered it that way, not because the equipment sits in Hobart. Optus (AS4804), Telstra (AS1221) and Vodafone Australia (AS133612) aggregate mobile subscribers behind regional gateways, so a handset connected in St Leonards can present an address recorded in another state. A block registered to a Tasmanian address can also be announced from equipment outside the state. Geolocation databases copy the published record, so they repeat whatever the operator entered.

Check the origin ASN on the specific prefix and the netname on the block instead of trusting a city label. With five facilities and twelve network presences here, the pool of Tasmanian-registered space is small, and a lookup that returns Hobart for a wide range often reflects one registration covering the whole state. Whether a network joins EdgeIX - Hobart or IX Australia Hobart tells you more about where its traffic changes hands than a geolocation city does.