Autonomous system
AS12297 TELECOM-ARMENIA Telecom Armenia AS
Unclassified RIPE NSP
Summary
Telecom Armenia
isp eyeball residential telecom
Telecom Armenia is the country's incumbent fixed-line operator, known for most of its life as ArmenTel and for a decade as Beeline Armenia.
What it's used for
- Fixed broadband and telephony for Armenian subscribers. The netnames say so directly:
VEON-AM-ADSL-NETcovers a full/16of DSL space, andVEON-AM-BB-NETandVEON-AM-BBS-NETcover the broadband pools.
Notable
- 200 observed BGP neighbours against 107,000 addresses. That is an extraordinary neighbour count for a network this size, and it is what being a landlocked country's incumbent looks like: Armenia's transit has to cross Georgia or Iran, so the national carrier peers everywhere it can reach.
- The registry preserves three eras of ownership at once.
VEON-AM-netnames come from VEON, the international group that owned the operator as Beeline until 2020, whileAM-ARMENTEL-netnames come from ArmenTel, the name before that. The registrant on all of it now reads Telecom Armenia.
Interesting
- One netname is
AM-ARMENTEL-990201, encoding the date the block was assigned: the 1st of February 1999. RIPE's convention of stamping the assignment date into the netname means parts of this network can be dated to the day, and this one predates the company's current name by two owners.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 6 exchanges in 5 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.196.122 |
| Neutral Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 193.239.119.53 |
| MSK-IX Moscow | Moscow, Russia | 195.208.209.146 |
| Bulgarian Internet eXchange | Sofia, Bulgaria | 193.169.198.84 |
| Balkan Internet Exchange | Sofia, Bulgaria | 185.1.30.50 |
| Armenian Internet Traffic Exchange | Yerevan, Armenia | 91.218.7.63 |
Transit providers
31 upstream, 49 downstream and 106 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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 41 prefixes · 107K addresses IPv6 21 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AM | Armenia | 62 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS12297- Registry name
- TELECOM-ARMENIA
- Registrant
- ARMENTEL-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@telecomarmenia.am
- Registered
- 2001-11-30
- Last changed
- 2026-10-05
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- TELECOM ARMENIA
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-TELARM- Present at
- 8 exchanges
- Facilities
- 3 facilities
- Website
- https://telecomarmenia.am
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
- 100% valid · 49 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 17 authorising AS12297
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 49 of 49 announcements
- Route objects
- 103 naming AS12297
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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