Autonomous system
AS16696 ITELNETWORKS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
iTel Networks Inc
isp telecom business
Most of these blocks carry a netname two letters long.
What it's used for
- A provider's network. Sixty IPv4 prefixes and three IPv6 prefixes announced from Canada, thirty thousand four hundred and sixty-four addresses, through thirty-two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The AS handle runs the company's two words together in capitals.
- Most blocks registered to the holder carry a netname of just two letters, the initials of those two words. It is the shortest label the registry will accept and still be unique.
- Two more of the holder's blocks abbreviate the same name differently: one keeps four letters of the first word, the other keeps two, and both add the word for a network and a counter.
- One block is registered to the regional address registry itself, under a netname of that word and a number.
- Another belongs to a separate company, under its own initials and the word for a network.
- Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Three abbreviations of one company name across one record is what happens when each allocation is labelled from scratch. The two-letter version is the extreme case: unique, valid and unreadable.
- Sixty blocks with a registry-held one among them, thirty-two upstreams and no reverse names at all, is a network built by acquisition and operated without any outward-facing naming.
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 5 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 206.81.80.226 |
| Toronto Internet Exchange | Toronto, Canada | 206.108.35.95 |
| YYCIX Calgary Internet Exchange | Calgary, Canada | 206.126.225.48 |
| Vancouver Internet Exchange | Vancouver, Canada | 206.41.104.77 |
| YXEIX Saskatoon Internet Exchange | Saskatoon, Canada | 206.71.11.20 |
Transit providers
16 upstream, 11 downstream and 33 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 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 60 prefixes · 30.72K addresses IPv6 3 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 63 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16696- Registry name
- ITELNETWORKS
- Registrant
- iTel Networks Inc
- Abuse contact
- abuse@itel.com
- Registered
- 2012-05-02
- Last changed
- 2012-05-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 92% valid · 112 valid, 10 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 130 authorising AS16696
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 99.2% registered · 121 of 122 announcements
- Route objects
- 184 naming AS16696
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 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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