Registered in 2008 to Netarx for its "Netcare" product — a vendor management service with no public spec.
IANA assigns 1040 to netarx, described as "Netarx Netcare", registered in April 2008. Netarx was a US network services company and Netcare was its managed-monitoring offering; no protocol documentation or implementation is publicly available. As elsewhere in this band, an open 1040 on a scan is far more likely to be a dynamically assigned endpoint on a legacy Windows host than the registered product.
Expose with care
A vendor monitoring agent, if that is what is really listening, is an administrative surface — keep it on a management network rather than the internet.
$ nmap -Pn -sV -p 1040 TARGETSeen this on your network? Beige Box scans your Wi-Fi and shows every open port on every device — and its Ports tool links straight back here.
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