Autonomous system
AS1273 CW Vodafone Group PLC
Business RIPE
Summary
Vodafone Group
transit isp enterprise
A major Vodafone Group network (CW Vodafone Group PLC), carrying the former Cable & Wireless Worldwide international backbone and enterprise services.
What it's used for
- Global IP transit and managed enterprise/WAN connectivity for Vodafone's business customers, built on the acquired Cable & Wireless network.
Notable
- Vodafone runs many national ASNs for its mobile and fixed operators; AS1273 is the international/enterprise backbone side, not a specific country's consumer broadband.
Interesting
- Cable & Wireless traced its roots to 19th-century telegraph cabling; Vodafone absorbed that global backbone in 2012 and still runs it under this ASN.
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 22 exchanges in 13 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.182 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.209.144 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.228.32 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.236.73 |
| Coresite - Any2 West | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.210.96 |
| Any2 California | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.210.96 |
| Hong Kong Internet Exchange | Hong Kong, China | 123.255.91.22 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Sydney | Sydney, Australia | 45.127.172.76 |
Transit providers
22 upstream, 195 downstream and 380 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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 281 prefixes · 1.84M addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| EU | 283 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS1273- Registry name
- CW
- Registrant
- CW-EUROPE-GSOC
- Registered
- 2002-09-23
- Last changed
- 2026-03-09
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 58% valid · 109 valid, 80 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 153 authorising AS1273
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 89% registered · 168 of 189 announcements 3 other origin
- Route objects
- 318 naming AS1273
Reputation
Classification and threat
Business Corporate network, or multi-tenant SASE egress carrying staff browsing.
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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