Autonomous system
AS10199 TATA-AS - Tata Communications Ltd
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Tata Communications (India access network)
isp broadband india
TATA-AS is held by Tata Communications Ltd — the company that grew out of VSNL, India's former international-gateway monopoly. Despite the famous name, this particular ASN is not the global backbone; it carries Indian end-user access space.
What it's used for
- Subscriber and customer connectivity inside India. The reverse DNS is unambiguous about what lives here: pools like
mum-cdma.dialup.vsnl.net.in,cdma-delhi.vsnl.net.inanddel-cdma.dialup.vsnl.net.in, alongside static customer assignments namedstatic-pune,static-delhi,static-kolkataandstatic-ttsl-hyderabad(TTSL being Tata Teleservices).
Notable
This is an eyeball access network, not a carrier, and two things settle it. First the naming: dialup and cdma pools are dynamic subscriber address space, and the static-<city> blocks are fixed assignments to broadband and small business customers — both are customer-facing, not backbone. Second the topology: RIS sees 47 announced IPv4 prefixes totalling 180,480 addresses, no IPv6, and only 1 observed neighbour. A wholesale carrier peers with hundreds to thousands of ASes; a single observed neighbour means this AS sits behind Tata's transit, as an access network hanging off the group's backbone rather than being it.
Note that cdma here names the access technology, not the customer type — it was Tata's wireless-broadband last mile (the Indicom/Photon EVDO dongles and fixed wireless terminals), which served ordinary homes and small offices.
Interesting
Addresses in this AS geolocate to specific Indian metros, and the PTRs say which: Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad and Kolkata all appear by name in the hostnames.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS4755 | TATA Communications formerly VSNL is Leading ISP | 2,748 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-31, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 62 prefixes · 150K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IN | India | 62 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS10199- Registry name
- TATA-AS
- Registrant
- Tata Communications Limited
- Abuse contact
- ip.admin@tatacommunications.com
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-12-08
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 51% valid · 25 valid, 21 with no ROA 3 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 40 authorising AS10199
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 49 of 49 announcements
- Route objects
- 107 naming AS10199
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 447 networks and 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-01. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere