Autonomous system
AS5396 AS-IRIDEOS-MC
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Retelit Digital Services (formerly MC-link)
isp enterprise legacy
AS-IRIDEOS-MC is registered to Retelit Digital Services S.p.A. in Milan. The
MC in the handle is the giveaway: this was MC-link's network, which passed to
Irideos and then, after Irideos and Retelit were merged in 2022, to the combined
company.
What it's used for
- Business connectivity and data centre services in Italy, under a group that positions itself as the main alternative to the incumbent for B2B fibre and colocation.
Notable
- A B2B network, not a consumer one. The block is small, a few thousand addresses, and the group's bulk of traffic rides other AS numbers it also holds.
- The AS name still preserves two dead brands, MC-link and Irideos, which is a good illustration of why an AS handle should never be trusted as the current holder.
Interesting
- MC-link grew out of a bulletin board run by the Italian computing magazine MCmicrocomputer and became one of Italy's earliest commercial internet providers. The AS number outlasted the magazine, the BBS, and two rounds of acquisition.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IT | Italy | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS5396- Registry name
- AS-IRIDEOS-MC
- Registrant
- AS3302-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@retelit.it
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2025-12-18
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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