Autonomous system
AS15296 CYBERA
Unclassified ARIN Educational/Research
Summary
Cybera
research education isp infrastructure
A provincial research network announcing government, university and college space under one number.
What it's used for
- A not for profit research and education network. Fifty-four IPv4 prefixes and two IPv6 prefixes announced from Canada, twenty thousand addresses in total, across thirty-five observed neighbours.
Notable
- Eight of the sampled blocks share one netname belonging to the provincial government, even though they sit in unrelated parts of the address space and are announced as separate routes.
- That netname ends in a four figure number, a size marker from an era when allocations were counted in addresses rather than described by prefix length.
- Other blocks are registered to a university and a college under their own netnames, so the routing carries at least four distinct institutions.
- The three answering addresses all use the same form: the word host, the full address written with its dots intact, and then the network's domain.
- Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and three returned a name.
Interesting
- Embedding the address with its dots means each octet becomes its own label in the name, so the reverse name has seven parts where most have three or four. It parses, it is unambiguous, and it makes the network's naming instantly recognisable in any log.
- Thirty-five neighbours for twenty thousand addresses is the signature of a research network. These peer widely by design, because carrying traffic between institutions is the point rather than a cost.
- One netname across eight scattered blocks is a single allocation record that routing has since fragmented.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| YYCIX Calgary Internet Exchange | Calgary, Canada | 206.126.225.35 |
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 54 prefixes · 20.22K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 56 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS15296- Registry name
- CYBERA
- Registrant
- Cybera Inc
- Abuse contact
- noc@cybera.ca
- Registered
- 2000-04-14
- Last changed
- 2020-03-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Cybera Inc
- Also known as
- NETERA, NETERA-2, CYBERANET
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS15296:AS-GIGAPOP- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 3 facilities
- Website
- http://www.cybera.ca
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
- 94% valid · 62 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 63 authorising AS15296
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 74% registered · 49 of 66 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 87 naming AS15296
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