Autonomous system
AS5540 IEC_AS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Israel Electric Corporation
enterprise legacy
IEC_AS is the Israel Electric Corporation Limited, the state-owned utility that generates and transmits the great majority of Israel's electricity. It is headquartered in Haifa.
What it's used for
- The utility's own corporate and operational network: internal systems, staff connectivity, and the company's public-facing services. This is an enterprise network run for a single organization, not a service sold to customers.
Notable
- IEC is critical national infrastructure, and an autonomous system belonging to a national power utility is best understood as a corporate network with an unusually high security profile rather than as a commercial internet operation.
- The announced space is modest, consistent with a large enterprise rather than a provider, and the blocks are drawn from a single contiguous legacy range.
Interesting
- Utilities of this vintage often ended up with early address space because they were among the first large industrial organizations in their countries to build wide-area data networks for operational control.
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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.
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 4 prefixes · 2.56K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IL | Israel | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS5540- Registry name
- IEC_AS
- Registrant
- AS5540-MNT
- Abuse contact
- nvabuse@cellcom.co.il
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2021-04-08
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 17% valid · 1 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS5540
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 10 naming AS5540
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