Autonomous system
AS4862 EQUANT-ASIA Orange Business AS for Asia
Unclassified APNIC NSP
Summary
Orange Business (Equant) — Asia
transit enterprise legacy
EQUANT-ASIA is the Asian regional AS of Orange Business, the enterprise services arm of Orange, and carries the name of its predecessor Equant — the global corporate data network that Orange absorbed.
What it's used for
- Regional routing for Orange Business's Asia-Pacific enterprise network, which sells managed connectivity, IP-VPN and network services to multinational companies.
- Announces only a small slice of address space directly (a single /24 scale block); the ASN's role is carrying enterprise traffic, not holding large pools of customer addresses.
Notable
- Registered in Hong Kong through APNIC, with peering handled centrally by Orange (
peering@orange.com) and anAS-EQUANT-ASIAas-set. - The Equant name persists in routing registries decades after the brand was retired commercially — a good example of a handle outliving the company that created it.
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 9 exchanges in 6 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.229.115 |
| BroadBand Internet eXchange Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 101.203.89.65 |
| Hong Kong Internet Exchange | Hong Kong, China | 123.255.91.32 |
| DE-CIX Mumbai | Mumbai, India | 103.27.171.221 |
| Extreme IX Mumbai | Mumbai, India | 103.77.108.182 |
| Taipei Internet Exchange (TPIX) | Taipei, Taiwan | 203.163.222.188 |
| Extreme IX Chennai | Chennai, India | 45.120.251.22 |
| Korea Internet Neutral Exchange KINX | Seoul, South Korea | 139.150.100.67 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 1 downstream and 36 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 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| HK | Hong Kong | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS4862- Registry name
- EQUANT-ASIA
- Registrant
- Equant Inc
- Abuse contact
- soc@orange.com
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-06-17
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Orange Business Services Asia
- Also known as
- Orange (a sister company of), formerly Equant
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Asia Pacific
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS-EQUANT-ASIA- Present at
- 10 exchanges
- Facilities
- 8 facilities
- Website
- https://www.orange-business.com/
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 · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS4862
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 8 naming AS4862
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 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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