Autonomous system
AS2906 AS-SSI
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Netflix, Inc.
streaming cdn video
Netflix's Autonomous System. Most of the heavy video streaming, however, is delivered from Open Connect, Netflix's purpose-built CDN, rather than from this ASN directly.
What it's used for
- Netflix control-plane and API traffic (the app, sign-in, playback negotiation).
- Open Connect Appliances (OCAs) — caching servers Netflix places inside ISP networks and IXPs to serve the actual video bytes locally.
Notable
- If you traceroute a Netflix stream you often land on an Open Connect box in or near your own ISP, not a Netflix data center.
- ISPs can host OCAs for free to cut transit costs, which is why Netflix video is usually very close to the viewer.
Interesting
- Open Connect is one of the largest private CDNs in the world, built because general-purpose CDNs struggled with Netflix's sheer volume at peak.
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 93 exchanges in 26 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| IX.br (PTT.br) São Paulo | São Paulo, Brazil | 187.16.217.185 |
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.194.202 |
| IX.br (PTT.br) Fortaleza | Fortaleza, Brazil | 45.68.72.55 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.225.16 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.210.250 |
| Neutral Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 193.239.117.54 |
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.8.80 |
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.236.194 |
Transit providers
97 upstream, 1 downstream and 154 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 111 prefixes · 280K addresses IPv6 470 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 581 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS2906- Registry name
- AS-SSI
- Registrant
- Netflix Streaming Services Inc.
- Abuse contact
- cdnetops@netflix.com
- Registered
- 2009-09-02
- Last changed
- 2012-08-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 522 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 23 authorising AS2906
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 522 of 522 announcements
- Route objects
- 101 naming AS2906
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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