Autonomous system
AS4648 SPARK-NZ Global-Gateway Internet
Unclassified ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Spark New Zealand (Global-Gateway)
transit legacy
SPARK-NZ carries Global-Gateway, the international and wholesale internet business of Spark New Zealand Trading Limited (the former Telecom New Zealand), based in Auckland.
What it's used for
- International transit and wholesale IP connectivity into and out of New Zealand, including capacity sold to other carriers and ISPs.
- Peering with a large number of networks worldwide on Spark's behalf.
Notable
- This is the international gateway side of Spark, not the ASN that numbers New Zealand home broadband customers. Traffic here is mostly transit and interconnect rather than eyeballs.
- New Zealand's geographic isolation makes international gateway networks like this one unusually important: nearly all offshore traffic crosses a small number of submarine cables, and Global-Gateway is one of the main doors.
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 8 exchanges in 3 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.229.204 |
| Megaport IX Sydney | Sydney, Australia | 103.26.68.151 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Sydney | Sydney, Australia | 45.127.172.168 |
| IX Australia (Sydney NSW) | Sydney, Australia | 218.100.53.60 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Los Angeles | Los Angeles, United States | 206.223.123.6 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Palo Alto | Palo Alto, United States | 198.32.176.97 |
| Equinix Los Angeles IBX | Los Angeles, United States | 206.223.123.6 |
| Megaport IX Los Angeles | Los Angeles, United States | 206.53.172.41 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 46 downstream and 81 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 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 132 prefixes · 76.29K addresses IPv6 94 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NZ | New Zealand | 226 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS4648- Registry name
- SPARK-NZ
- Registrant
- Spark New Zealand Trading Limited
- Abuse contact
- sir@spark.co.nz
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-07-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Spark New Zealand
- Also known as
- Telecom New Zealand
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Asia Pacific
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS-4648-CUSTOMERS- Present at
- 8 exchanges
- Facilities
- 5 facilities
- Website
- http://www.spark.co.nz
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
- 11% valid · 18 valid, 153 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 24 authorising AS4648
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 97% registered · 166 of 171 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 534 naming AS4648
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: 446 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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