Autonomous system
AS4556 PACKETFABRIC-AS4556
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
PacketFabric
transit legacy
PACKETFABRIC-AS4556 — PacketFabric, Inc., a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) carrier offering software-defined private connectivity: point-to-point circuits, virtual cross-connects, and on-ramps into the major public clouds.
What it's used for
- Carrier-grade transport and IP transit sold to enterprises and other networks, provisioned on demand through an API/portal rather than through traditional circuit ordering.
- Announces around 12,000 IPv4 addresses, modest for a carrier because most of its business is layer-2 transport for other people's addresses.
Notable
- A transit/backbone network, not an eyeball or hosting AS.
- Despite the low number, ARIN registered AS4556 to PacketFabric in 2017 — this is a reissued ASN and carries no early-internet pedigree.
Interesting
- PacketFabric merged with Unitas Global in 2023, combining an automated private-transport fabric with Unitas' managed internet and edge business.
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 3 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX New York | New York, United States | 206.82.104.179 |
| DE-CIX Dallas | Dallas, United States | 206.53.202.38 |
| United IX Chicago | Chicago, United States | 206.41.110.69 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS1828 | Unitas Global | 2,807 |
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 15 prefixes · 12.03K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 16 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS4556- Registry name
- PACKETFABRIC-AS4556
- Registrant
- PacketFabric, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- rick.king@packetfabric.com
- Registered
- 2017-04-17
- Last changed
- 2017-04-17
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 4% valid · 2 valid, 46 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS4556
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 48 of 48 announcements
- Route objects
- 62 naming AS4556
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: 431 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