Autonomous system
AS11272 TELEPAK-NETWORKS-INC
Unclassified ARIN NSP
Summary
C Spire Fiber (Telepak Networks)
isp transit legacy
TELEPAK-NETWORKS-INC is the wireline network of C Spire Fiber, the Mississippi-based regional carrier. Telepak Networks and C Spire Wireless are both held by Telapex, Inc., the Ridgeland, Mississippi holding company, and Telepak's fibre business was rebranded under the C Spire Fiber name. It serves consumers, businesses and institutions across Mississippi and the Gulf Coast.
What it's used for
RIS observes 35 IPv4 prefixes carrying about 256,000 addresses, two IPv6 prefixes (a 2607:f4a0::/32 and a /48 from it), and 60 observed neighbours. Sixty neighbours against a quarter-million addresses is the profile of a real regional carrier: it buys transit, it peers, and it has customer ASes behind it. An enterprise of the same address size would have three or four.
Reverse DNS shows the space carrying access customers rather than servers. Addresses answer as static-50-86-128-5.telepak.net, 136.239.0.5.static.cspire.com, host-207-179-32-5.cspire.net and reserved-76-8-240-5.telepak.net — subscriber and static-assignment naming under the operator's own domains. Institutional customers show up directly: 167.160.210.5 is ns.mc.edu and 167.160.210.133 is nat.wireless812.mc.edu, Mississippi College's nameserver and campus-wireless NAT, sitting on space registered as TELEPAK-ADDITIONAL.
Notable
The prefix registrants look scattered and are not. CELLULAR-SOUTH2 (org: C Spire) is the group's own mobile arm under its former name. CALLIS-COMMUNICATIONS is the Mobile, Alabama business-communications provider C Spire acquired in 2013. COGENT-A is ordinary provider-assigned carrier space. TRI-STATE-INTERNET holds 50.86.0.0/16, announced here with telepak.net reverse DNS on it. Every one of these is intra-group corporate history, upstream-assigned space, or a named ISP whose blocks this carrier announces — not the unrelated third-party registrants that signal IP leasing.
Interesting
The invns-05.telapex.com PTR on 66.175.128.5 is the holding company itself showing through: the parent's domain still names infrastructure inside a network that markets under two other brands.
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
Recorded at 3 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.136.201 |
| DE-CIX Dallas | Dallas, United States | 206.53.202.138 |
| Digital Realty Atlanta Internet Exchange | Atlanta, United States | 206.126.110.194 |
Transit providers
8 upstream, 40 downstream and 60 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 123 prefixes · 231K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 124 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11272- Registry name
- TELEPAK-NETWORKS-INC
- Registrant
- C Spire Fiber
- Abuse contact
- cdwatson@cspire.com
- Registered
- 1998-06-08
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- C Spire Fiber
- Also known as
- C Spire Fiber
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Heavy Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
ARIN::AS-TELEPAK-C- Present at
- 3 exchanges
- Facilities
- 3 facilities
- Website
- http://www.cspirefiber.com
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 63% valid · 19 valid, 11 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 13 authorising AS11272
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 90% registered · 27 of 30 announcements 3 other origin
- Route objects
- 34 naming AS11272
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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