Autonomous system
AS54198 VIANET
Unclassified ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Vmedia
residential cable dsl isp
VIANET is operated by Vmedia Inc, a Canadian cable and DSL internet service provider.
What it's used for
- The address space carries residential subscriber traffic, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as
client-198-251-52-0.vianetdsl.comand netnames likeVMEDIA1-13andVMEDIA-4. - The AS announces 26,112 IPv4 addresses across 17 prefixes with 10 observed neighbours, a ratio consistent with an access network serving end-user connections rather than transit.
- Traffic from this AS consists of residential broadband users accessing the internet via cable and DSL infrastructure in Quebec and surrounding regions.
Notable
- Registrants include both
VMedia IncandViaNetTV Inc, reflecting the corporate history where Vmedia was formerly known as ViaNetTV. - The inventory is composed of multiple /22 and /21 blocks, with the largest being
45.44.224.0/19, indicating a substantial but segmented residential address estate.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CANIX Internet Exchange - Montreal | Montreal, Canada | 198.179.18.62 |
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 17 prefixes · 26.11K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 17 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Registered
- 2011-11-03
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- ViaNetTV
- Also known as
- Vmedia Inc.
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-VMEDIAINC- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Website
- https://www.vmedia.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
- 100% valid · 42 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 9 authorising AS54198
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 98% registered · 41 of 42 announcements
- Route objects
- 62 naming AS54198
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