Autonomous system
AS11902 WORLD-LINK
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
World-Link Communications, Inc.
isp enterprise legacy
WORLD-LINK is World-Link Communications, Inc. of Framingham, Massachusetts — a maritime satellite communications provider that runs shore-side hubs on Inmarsat, Intelsat and Iridium and sells connectivity to commercial vessels. ARIN registers the ASN to the company's 1101 Worcester Road address, first assigned in 1999 and last touched in 2025.
What it's used for
The routing is tiny and entirely first-party: RIS sees 2 IPv4 prefixes totalling 512 addresses (198.44.198.0/24 and 198.44.199.0/24), no IPv6, and 1 observed neighbour. Both /24s are registered to World-Link Communications itself, so the announcing party and the registrant are the same entity — none of the multi-registrant, multi-RIR scatter that marks leased or brokered address space.
A single upstream and half a kilo-address is the shape of a service company's own edge rather than a subscriber network. The address space is where the teleport side of a maritime service lives: the hub that terminates satellite links from ships, the NOC and support systems that watch them, and the public-facing corporate infrastructure. The vessels themselves sit behind the satellite links; they do not need to be visible in BGP for the service to work, which is why a provider serving well over a thousand ships can do it from two /24s.
Notable
Name-checking matters here. Several unrelated companies use "WorldLink", including Nepal's largest consumer ISP; the ARIN postal address is what pins this AS to the Massachusetts maritime operator rather than any of them.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS22351 | INTELSAT GLOBAL SERVICE CORPORATION | 120 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-19, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11902- Registry name
- WORLD-LINK
- Registrant
- World-Link Communications, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- systems@wlnet.com
- Registered
- 1999-02-01
- Last changed
- 2025-08-20
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS11902
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS11902
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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. 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