Autonomous system
AS5488 BELGACOM Proximus Customer Edge-Network
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Proximus (Customer Edge Network)
isp legacy
BELGACOM is registered to Proximus NV, Belgium's incumbent telecom operator (Belgacom until its 2014 rebrand). The registry describes this AS specifically as the Proximus Customer Edge-Network.
What it's used for
- Address space handed to Proximus customers at the network edge rather than the operator's own consumer access or backbone plant. Reverse DNS across the ranges lands on Belgian business domains and hosted services, consistent with provider-assigned space for enterprise and SME customers.
Notable
- Proximus announces several AS numbers with different jobs. This one is the customer edge; the consumer/backbone side of the group is a separate network at AS5432. Treat AS5488 as business connectivity, not eyeball broadband.
- The
Belgacomhandle outlived the brand by more than a decade, a common pattern: registry handles are rarely renamed after a corporate rebrand.
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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, 33 downstream and 41 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS5432 | Proximus NV | 917 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 13 prefixes · 7.17K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| BE | Belgium | 14 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS5488- Registry name
- Belgacom
- Registrant
- Proximus NV
- Abuse contact
- abuse@proximus.com
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2025-02-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 6% valid · 1 valid, 15 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS5488
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 94% registered · 15 of 16 announcements
- Route objects
- 33 naming AS5488
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 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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