Autonomous system
AS3550 PHNET-AS-AP Philippine Network Foundation, Inc PHNet
Education APNIC
Summary
Philippine Network Foundation (PHNet)
education research legacy
PHNET-AS-AP, the network of the Philippine Network Foundation, Inc. (PHNet), the Philippines' academic and research networking organisation.
What it's used for
- Connecting Philippine universities, research institutions, and government research bodies to each other and to the wider internet.
- Acting as a national research and education network (NREN): shared transit, peering, and interconnection for the member institutions rather than consumer service.
Notable
- Research and education address space (roughly 30,720 IPv4 addresses). The end users are campuses, not households.
- PHNet grew out of the effort that first put the Philippines on the internet, centred on the country's universities.
Interesting
- Like other NRENs holding low AS numbers, PHNet predates the commercial ISP market in its country: the academic network arrived first and the consumer providers followed.
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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 30.72K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| PH | Philippines | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS3550- Registry name
- PHNET-AS-AP
- Registrant
- Philippine Network Foundation, Inc (PHNet)
- Abuse contact
- NSServiceMGT@anz.com
- Registered
- 2022-04-21
- Last changed
- 2025-07-30
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Philippine Network Foundation
- Also known as
- PHNet
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- Website
- http://ph.net
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
- 100% valid · 5 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 5 authorising AS3550
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 16 naming AS3550
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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: 432 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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