Autonomous system
AS12833 GIGAPIX GigaPix - Portuguese Internet eXchange
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
GigaPix (Portuguese Internet Exchange)
infrastructure research education
A national internet exchange, run by the country's research and education foundation.
What it's used for
- The autonomous system of Portugal's internet exchange point. 512 addresses in one IPv4 prefix, eight observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The whole inventory is
193.236.100.0/23, netnameGIGAPIX-PT. - The block is registered to the national foundation for science and technology, with its security team as a listed contact.
- The AS handle reads
GIGAPIX GigaPix - Portuguese Internet eXchange. - First observed in the routing archive at the earliest date the archive holds.
- Three addresses were sampled and none returned a name.
Interesting
- An exchange is the room where networks meet, and its own AS is almost incidental to what it does. The important addresses at an exchange are the peering LAN, which carries enormous traffic between members and is barely routed at all. A /23 and eight neighbours understates this place by a wide margin.
- The operator is the national research and education network rather than a company. Several European exchanges began this way: the academic network already had the fibre, the building and the neutrality, so it became the meeting point for everyone else.
- The
-PTsuffix on the netname marks a national facility. Exchange points are named for their country far more often than for their operator, because membership is the product and the country defines who is nearby.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Gigabit Portuguese Internet Exchange Point | Lisbon, Portugal | 193.136.250.1 |
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 1 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| PT | Portugal | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS12833- Registry name
- GigaPix
- Registrant
- AS1930-MNT
- Abuse contact
- report@csirt.fct.pt
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2026-07-03
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS12833
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS12833
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: 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