AS Numbers are how you announce the prefixes where content C resides e.g. 1.0.0.0/24 to the Internet, and you (through your provider announcing your prefix to the Internet) find your path to the content C for the services.

http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS15169&view...

Complexities aside - this is how your Internet works.