Autonomous system
AS12350 VTX-NETWORK
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
VTX Services
isp eyeball business legacy
One of Switzerland's long-standing independent providers, selling access and business connectivity nationally.
What it's used for
- Residential and business internet across Switzerland. 310,016 addresses over 29 announced prefixes, with 21 observed BGP neighbours and two IPv6
/32s.
Notable
- Two full
/16s,144.85.0.0/16and212.254.0.0/16, plus three/17s. For a network this size the inventory is unusually coarse — large blocks announced whole rather than split. - The netnames date almost every allocation:
CH-VTX-960404,960612,960708,961017, then980218,980422,980522,990330,20000704and20010830. Four allocations in 1996 alone.
Interesting
- The registrant field alternates between "VTX SA" and "VTX AG" across the blocks. Those are the same corporate form written in French and in German — Société Anonyme and Aktiengesellschaft — and a Swiss company operating in both language regions is legitimately both. The registry has simply recorded whichever name whoever filed the request was using that day.
- Four allocations inside a single year is the signature of a provider growing faster than its forecasts. Each request is a separate trip to the registry with a fresh justification of need, and doing that four times over means the address plan was being outrun.
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 5 exchanges in 4 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.225.129 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.209.24 |
| SwissIX | Zurich, Switzerland | 91.206.52.77 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Paris | Paris, France | 195.42.144.50 |
| CERN IXP / Equinix Internet Exchange Geneva | Geneva, Switzerland | 192.65.185.157 |
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 29 prefixes · 310K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CH | Switzerland | 31 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS12350- Registry name
- VTX-NETWORK
- Registrant
- VTX Services SA
- Abuse contact
- abuse@vtx.ch
- Registered
- 2002-09-11
- Last changed
- 2026-09-17
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 97% valid · 31 valid, 0 with no ROA 1 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 31 authorising AS12350
- ASPA
- 1 declared providers
- IRR
- 97% registered · 31 of 32 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 30 naming AS12350
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 1,772 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