Autonomous system
AS51048 NEXT-CONNEX
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Wifinity
business isp uk wan
NEXT-CONNEX is operated by Wifinity Limited.
What it's used for
- The address space carries business connectivity and infrastructure, evidenced by netnames such as
UK-PCCWGLOBALNETWORKandUK-GOONHILLY, alongside registrants including Wifinity Limited, Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd, and Landmark Information Group Ltd. - The AS announces 15,360 IPv4 addresses across 11 prefixes and 3 IPv6 prefixes, maintaining 20 observed neighbours, a ratio consistent with a managed service provider rather than a large residential access network.
- Traffic from this AS consists of managed WAN, SD-WAN, and infrastructure-as-a-service connectivity for business clients, reflecting Wifinity's role as a managed internet service provider.
Notable
- Registrants for the majority of the inventory align with the announcer, listing Wifinity Limited, while other blocks are registered to Cogent Communications, LLC, Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd, Landmark Information Group Ltd, Intercity SOC, and CloudSigma AG.
- Wifinity acquired Next Connex, a UK network connectivity provider, to bolster its technical and product capabilities following investment from LDC in September 2021.
- The inventory is a mixed estate comprising legacy PCCW Global Network blocks, specific site allocations for Goonhilly and Landmark, and CloudSigma space, indicating a history of acquisitions and diverse client base.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 17 downstream and 22 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS49158 | WIFINITY NETWORKS LIMITED | 564 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-17, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 11 prefixes · 15.36K addresses IPv6 3 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 14 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS51048- Registry name
- NEXT-CONNEX
- Registrant
- MNT-WIFINTY
- Abuse contact
- netops@wifinity.co.uk
- Registered
- 2010-05-21
- Last changed
- 2026-09-01
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 10 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 10 authorising AS51048
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 10 of 10 announcements
- Route objects
- 17 naming AS51048
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: 442 networks and 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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