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.
Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 571 |
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
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere