Autonomous system
AS54825 PACKET
Hosting ARIN Content
Summary
Equinix Metal (formerly Packet)
cloud hosting dedicated
The Autonomous System behind Equinix Metal, an automated bare-metal cloud that provisions single-tenant physical servers on demand across Equinix data centers. It began as Packet, acquired by Equinix in 2020.
What it's used for
- Renting dedicated physical servers (not shared VMs) via an API/cloud model, used for latency-sensitive, high-performance, or compliance workloads.
Notable
- An IP here identifies Equinix Metal as the host of whatever a customer runs on their bare-metal server, not the operator of that workload.
- Bare metal means one tenant per machine, unlike the multi-tenant VMs of most public clouds.
Interesting
- Equinix announced it is winding down the Metal service, steering customers to partner bare-metal offerings.
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 28 exchanges in 12 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| IX.br (PTT.br) São Paulo | São Paulo, Brazil | 187.16.212.157 |
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.194.235 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.227.12 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.213.96 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.230.15 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.238.87 |
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 206.81.80.73 |
| Any2 California | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.211.189 |
Transit providers
30 upstream, 2 downstream and 44 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 27 prefixes · 14.59K addresses IPv6 17 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 44 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS54825- Registry name
- PACKET
- Registrant
- Packet Host, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- metal-noc@equinix.com
- Registered
- 2012-08-29
- Last changed
- 2015-06-05
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Equinix Metal
- Also known as
- Packet / Equinix Metal
- Network type
- Content
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-PACKET- Present at
- 34 exchanges
- Facilities
- 27 facilities
- Website
- https://metal.equinix.com/
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 · 150 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 229 authorising AS54825
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 150 of 150 announcements
- Route objects
- 484 naming AS54825
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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: 446 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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