Autonomous system
AS5071 WESTEL-1
Unclassified ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Navigata Communications Limited
isp legacy
WESTEL-1 is the AS of Navigata Communications Limited, a Canadian carrier and competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) offering voice, data, and internet services to business customers.
What it's used for
- Carrier services across Canada — internet access, business voice and hosted PBX, and data connectivity. AS5071 announces roughly 39,000 IPv4 addresses.
Notable
- Unlike many low ASNs in this range, this one is genuinely old: ARIN's registration for AS5071 dates to June 1995. The
WESTELhandle comes from Westel, the telecom business that traces back to BC Rail's telecommunications operations. - The Canadian CLEC market is a small field of independents competing against the incumbent carriers, and Navigata has been one of the long-running names in 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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Vancouver Internet Exchange | Vancouver, Canada | 206.41.104.96 |
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 9 prefixes · 37.89K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 9 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS5071- Registry name
- WESTEL-1
- Registrant
- Navigata Communications Limited
- Abuse contact
- abuse@distributel.ca
- Registered
- 1995-06-13
- Last changed
- 2017-10-12
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Navigata Communications
- Also known as
- Navigata
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- No
- IRR as-set
AS5071:AS-CUSTOMERS- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- https://www.navigata.ca/
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
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS5071
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 25 naming AS5071
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