Autonomous system
AS2828 XO-AS15
Unclassified DROP-listed space ARIN NSP
Summary
Verizon Business (former XO Communications)
transit legacy
A US backbone network (XO-AS15) originally operated by XO Communications and now held by MCI Communications Services d/b/a Verizon Business.
What it's used for
- Internet transit and backbone routing, historically XO's nationwide IP network, now folded into Verizon's infrastructure.
Notable
- Carrier transit, not consumer broadband. The former XO network is being routed behind Verizon's AS701.
Interesting
- The low AS number reflects an early XO Communications allocation that was reissued into Verizon after the acquisition.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 1 downstream and 5 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS701 | Verizon Business | 5,045 |
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 1,120 prefixes · 6.53M addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1,121 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS2828- Registry name
- XO-AS15
- Registrant
- Verizon Business
- Abuse contact
- abuse@verizon.com
- Registered
- 2001-12-19
- Last changed
- 2022-05-31
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- XO Communications
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Selective
- Website
- https://www.verizon.com/business/
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
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 86 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS2828
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 95% registered · 82 of 86 announcements
- Route objects
- 85 naming AS2828
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.
1 DROP match Announced space overlapping the DROP prefix list.
| Announced | DROP entry | Record |
|---|---|---|
| 204.91.64.0/18 | 204.91.96.0/20 | SBL623100 |
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,773 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