Autonomous system
AS5690 VIANET INC 5690
Residential ARIN
Summary
Vianet Inc.
isp eyeball legacy
Vianet Inc. is an independent telecommunications company based in Sudbury,
Ontario, selling internet, telephone, and television service across Northern
Ontario. It was founded in the mid-1990s and registered AS5690 with ARIN in
1995.
What it's used for
- Consumer and small-business broadband across Sudbury, Timmins, and the smaller communities of Northern Ontario, increasingly over fibre the company has built itself.
Notable
- An "eyeball" network: the addresses behind this ASN are mostly homes and small offices, not servers.
- Its inventory tells the story of a regional ISP that grew by accretion — over 80 announced prefixes, many of them small /22s and /24s picked up piecemeal rather than one large early block.
Interesting
- Northern Ontario is thinly populated and expensive to wire, so an independent operator surviving there against the national carriers is itself notable; Vianet has spent years extending its own fibre through Sudbury's neighbourhoods.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 42 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS5690- Registry name
- VIANET INC 5690
- Registrant
- Vianet Inc.
- Abuse contact
- dns@vianet.ca
- Registered
- 1995-08-24
- Last changed
- 2024-08-30
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
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