Autonomous system
AS559 SWITCH Switch, Swiss Academic and Research Network
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
SWITCH (Swiss Academic and Research Network)
education research legacy
SWITCH, the Swiss national academic and research network (NREN) connecting the country's universities and research institutions.
What it's used for
- Backbone and internet connectivity for Swiss universities, colleges, and research organizations, plus related services.
Notable
- A national research and education network, not a commercial ISP.
- The low AS number reflects an early-internet allocation, handed out roughly sequentially in the internet's first years.
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 5 exchanges in 3 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.196.147 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.208.33 |
| SwissIX | Zurich, Switzerland | 91.206.52.245 |
| CERN IXP / Equinix Internet Exchange Geneva | Geneva, Switzerland | 192.65.185.130 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Zurich | Zurich, Switzerland | 194.42.48.11 |
Transit providers
32 upstream, 6 downstream and 60 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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 106 prefixes · 2.18M addresses IPv6 8 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CH | Switzerland | 114 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS559- Registry name
- Switch
- Registrant
- SWITCH
- Abuse contact
- abuse@switch.ch
- Registered
- 2002-09-04
- Last changed
- 2026-04-20
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 98% valid · 124 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 126 authorising AS559
- ASPA
- 8 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 126 of 126 announcements
- Route objects
- 158 naming AS559
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