Autonomous system
AS4648 SPARK-NZ Global-Gateway Internet
Unclassified APNIC
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.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NZ | New Zealand | 227 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- 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
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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