Autonomous system
AS4826 VOCUS-BACKBONE-AS Vocus Connect International Backbone
Unclassified APNIC NSP
Summary
Vocus Connect International Backbone
transit legacy
Autonomous System 4826 (VOCUS-BACKBONE-AS) is the international backbone AS of Vocus, one of Australia's larger fibre and wholesale carriers, registered to its North Sydney head office.
What it's used for
- Carrier backbone, IP transit and wholesale connectivity across Australia and New Zealand and out to international points of presence.
- It is Vocus's main routing identity for transit customers and for the subsea and terrestrial capacity the company operates.
Notable
- One of the larger networks in this part of the AS range, announcing several hundred thousand IPv4 addresses.
- A wholesale and transit network rather than a retail one: much of the traffic here belongs to downstream ISPs, enterprises and content networks buying capacity, not to Vocus's own end users.
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 38 exchanges in 6 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.228.74 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.237.175 |
| Coresite - Any2 West | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.210.136 |
| Any2 California | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.210.136 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.136.142 |
| Megaport IX Sydney | Sydney, Australia | 103.26.68.248 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Sydney | Sydney, Australia | 45.127.172.74 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Dallas | Dallas, United States | 206.223.118.223 |
Transit providers
23 upstream, 367 downstream and 495 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 2026-10-29, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 173 prefixes · 330K addresses IPv6 7 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 180 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS4826- Registry name
- VOCUS-BACKBONE-AS
- Registrant
- VOCUS PTY LTD
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@vocus.net
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2026-10-09
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Vocus Communications
- Also known as
- Vocus
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
APNIC::AS4826:AS-VOCUS- Present at
- 45 exchanges
- Facilities
- 43 facilities
- Website
- https://www.vocus.com.au
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
- 63% valid · 109 valid, 62 with no ROA 2 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 208 authorising AS4826
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 69% registered · 119 of 173 announcements 24 other origin
- Route objects
- 268 naming AS4826
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: 448 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. 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