Autonomous system
AS5056 AUREON-5056
Residential ARIN
Summary
Aureon Network Services
transit isp legacy
AUREON-5056 — Aureon Network Services, formerly Iowa Network Services (and
still trading as netINS for internet services), a West Des Moines carrier
that provides statewide network services to Iowa's independent telephone
companies.
What it's used for
- Wholesale transport and IP transit sold to regional telcos, ISPs, CLECs, and municipal broadband networks across Iowa.
- Internet access under the netINS brand, with address space sub-allocated downstream — so a good share of its ~291,000 addresses ultimately lands on end-user broadband connections served by member carriers.
Notable
- A carrier's carrier: the network exists to aggregate and backhaul for other providers, which is why its address holdings dwarf those of any single Iowa telco.
Interesting
- The company began as the Iowa Switch Company in 1988, formed after the Bell System breakup so that Iowa's independent telcos could reach long-distance carriers, and became the first Centralized Equal Access provider in the United States.
- ARIN registered AS5056 in 1995.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 614 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS5056- Registry name
- AUREON-5056
- Registrant
- Aureon Network Services
- Abuse contact
- abuse@netins.net
- Registered
- 1995-06-05
- Last changed
- 2022-07-13
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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