Autonomous system
AS5690 VIANET INC 5690
Residential ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
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.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Toronto Internet Exchange | Toronto, Canada | 206.108.34.15 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-24, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 42 prefixes · 110K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 43 |
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
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Vianet Internet Solutions
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Website
- http://www.vianet.ca
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
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 82 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS5690
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 96% registered · 79 of 82 announcements 3 other origin
- Route objects
- 49 naming AS5690
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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: 443 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-25. 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