Autonomous system
AS1661 ANS-ATLANTA
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
ANS Communications
transit legacy
An Atlanta-area node of ANS Communications (ANS-ATLANTA). ANS (Advanced Network and Services) was an early US internet backbone operator that built and ran the NSFNET T3 backbone.
What it's used for
- Backbone and regional transit networking, historically part of the ANS/NSFNET infrastructure.
Notable
- ANS was a pioneering national backbone provider; it was later acquired by AOL and its network passed to WorldCom/MCI.
- The low AS number reflects an early allocation from the internet's formative years.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 25 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS1661- Registry name
- ANS-ATLANTA
- Registrant
- Verizon Business
- Abuse contact
- abuse@verizon.com
- Registered
- 1996-11-22
- Last changed
- 2024-03-04
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere