Autonomous system
AS17648 HECL-AS - Hughes Communications India Private Limited
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Hughes Communications India
satellite residential isp india
The AS handle HECL-AS is held by Hughes Communications India Private Limited.
What it's used for
- The address space carries residential and consumer internet services, evidenced by the netname
HUGHES-INand the registrant identity. - The AS announces 12,288 IPv4 addresses across 10 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, with only 3 observed neighbours, indicating an access network role rather than transit.
Notable
- All registrants in the RDAP data agree with the announcer, consistently listing Hughes Communications India Private Limited.
- The address inventory is finely subdivided into multiple /21, /22, /23, and /24 blocks, suggesting internal segmentation for different service tiers or geographic regions.
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 2026-11-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 10 prefixes · 12.29K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IN | India | 11 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS17648- Registry name
- HECL-AS
- Registrant
- Hughes Communications India Private Limited
- Abuse contact
- isgcs@hughes.in
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2024-07-11
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 80% valid · 20 valid, 1 with no ROA 4 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 24 authorising AS17648
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 96% registered · 24 of 25 announcements
- Route objects
- 44 naming AS17648
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: 453 networks and 1,846 prefixes, as published 2026-11-11. 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