Autonomous system
AS1699 ANS-1699-AS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
ANS Communications
transit legacy
A network of ANS Communications (ANS-1699-AS). 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 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.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 35 prefixes · 19.46K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 35 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS1699- Registry name
- ANS-1699-AS
- Registrant
- Verizon Business
- Abuse contact
- abuse@verizon.com
- Registered
- 1996-11-22
- Last changed
- 2024-03-04
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 43 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS1699
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 12% registered · 5 of 43 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS1699
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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