A fight erupted between SEACOM and another network operator when SEACOM discovered that one of its network numbers was being used by an Internet service provider from Manila in the Philippines.
The dispute involves an Autonomous System Number (ASN) belonging to SEACOM, which was being used by another network – IPDC Solutions in Asia.
It also involves a block of 256 IP addresses, ranging from 156.241.3.0 to 156.241.3.255, which African Internet registry AFRINIC assigned to a company called Cloud Innovation.
Cloud Innovation owns the actual IP address block, 156.241.3.0/24, which was issued to it by AFRINIC. It delegated the block to LARUS, which delegated it to IPDC, which delegated it to their client.