Autonomous system
AS11696 NBS11696
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Fusion Connect (Fusion, LLC)
isp enterprise legacy
NBS11696 is held by Fusion, LLC — the network behind Fusion Connect, a US managed service provider selling business internet, SD-WAN, hosted voice and UCaaS. The handle preserves Network Billing Systems, the company Fusion absorbed, and the AS has since become the routing home for a long chain of acquisitions.
What it's used for
- Business connectivity and hosted voice for SMB and mid-market customers. RIS sees 186 IPv4 prefixes / 120,320 addresses and 15 IPv6 prefixes, against only 6 observed neighbours — many prefixes, few peers. That is a service provider that aggregates a lot of customer space but buys its transit rather than selling it.
- Reverse DNS shows the customer-facing edge directly:
65.48.96.5 -> 65-48-96-5.static.fusionconnect.netand69.60.192.5 -> ...static.fusionconnect.netare static-IP business access pools, andge-0-0-0.ar1.kth.cle.oh.fidelityaccess.netis a named aggregation router in Cleveland, Ohio.
Notable
- The registrant list looks alarming at first glance — Fidelity Access, Fidelity Voice Services, Advanced System Technologies, Technology Xperts, SIMLAB-NOC, a block named for American Greetings — but this is the acquisition and SWIP pattern, not brokerage. The rDNS on those very blocks resolves under
fidelityaccess.netandfusionconnect.net, i.e. the announcing operator's own domains, and the named businesses are customers or absorbed companies rather than unrelated shells. First-party rDNS over "scattered" registrants is the exoneration, not the conviction. - Fusion's own blocks register cleanly to Fusion, LLC (
CYPRESS-64-190).
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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 175 prefixes · 119K addresses IPv6 22 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 197 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11696- Registry name
- NBS11696
- Registrant
- Fusion, LLC
- Abuse contact
- NCC@fusionconnect.com
- Registered
- 1998-11-18
- Last changed
- 2025-03-21
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 9% valid · 18 valid, 183 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 18 authorising AS11696
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 98% registered · 197 of 201 announcements 3 other origin
- Route objects
- 201 naming AS11696
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: 442 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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