Autonomous system
AS13150 CATON
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Cato Networks
hosting transit infrastructure
A netname dated 1992, eight years before the routing archive this sweep reads even begins.
What it's used for
- The global backbone of a network security company. 62,976 addresses across 53 IPv4 prefixes, 319 observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- Netnames include
IL-CATONETWORKS-19920409,19980304,19991108and20050218, alongsideCATO-NETWORKS-INC,CATO-NETWORKSINC,CN-238andCATONETWORKSINC-AP. - The prefixes are drawn from ranges issued by every regional registry.
- Eighteen addresses were sampled and none returned a name.
- 319 observed BGP neighbours.
Interesting
19920409is the earliest netname date in this range by six years. It cannot describe this company, which did not exist then; it describes the block, acquired later with its registration history intact. Address space carries its provenance forward through every sale.- One holder's blocks carry four different naming conventions because they were registered in four different regions, each with its own house style. The
-APsuffix and the incident-response object are one registry's habits; the country-prefixed dates are another's. - 319 neighbours against 63,000 addresses is a network built to be everywhere rather than to hold anything. Customers' traffic enters at the nearest point, so the peering count is the product.
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 72 exchanges in 37 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| IX.br (PTT.br) São Paulo | São Paulo, Brazil | 187.16.212.76 |
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.197.55 |
| Indonesian Internet Exchange (IIX-Jakarta) | Jakarta, Indonesia | 123.108.9.184 |
| IX.br (PTT.br) Fortaleza | Fortaleza, Brazil | 45.68.76.80 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.227.252 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.210.159 |
| Jakarta Internet Exchange | Jakarta, Indonesia | 119.11.184.121 |
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.11.8 |
Transit providers
112 upstream, 0 downstream and 112 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 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 58 prefixes · 65.54K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IL | Israel | 58 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS13150- Registry name
- CATON
- Registrant
- il-catonetworks-1-mnt
- Abuse contact
- abuse@catonetworks.com
- Registered
- 2015-09-18
- Last changed
- 2023-06-13
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 99.2% valid · 255 valid, 0 with no ROA 2 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 163 authorising AS13150
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 98% registered · 251 of 257 announcements 2 other origin
- Route objects
- 302 naming AS13150
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: 445 networks and 1,817 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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