Autonomous system
AS12096 AMPNET-ASN
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
AMP Telephones
telecom legacy
A small telephone company's network, registered under a more ambitious name.
What it's used for
- Telephone company connectivity. 512 addresses in two
/24s with a single observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The holder is AMP Telephones, but both blocks carry the netname
AMP-GLOBAL-COMMUNICATIONS-NYCand are registered to AMP Networks. - The two prefixes,
207.34.32.0/24and207.34.40.0/24, are eight/24s apart in the same range. - One neighbour for the whole operation.
Interesting
- Three names for one business, and they get progressively larger: Telephones, then Networks, then Global Communications. That sequence is the naming history of the late 1990s telecommunications industry in miniature, when every operator was repositioning from the thing it actually sold toward the thing the market was paying for.
- What is announced is 512 addresses through a single provider. The registry preserves the ambition and the routing table records the result, and the gap between the two is the most honest thing in the record.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS32298 | Centersquare | 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 2 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS12096- Registry name
- AMPNET-ASN
- Registrant
- AMP Telephones
- Abuse contact
- allan@ampnet.net
- Registered
- 1999-03-22
- Last changed
- 2017-12-27
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS12096
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS12096
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 1,778 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