Autonomous system
AS5738 SOVER-ASN
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
FirstLight
isp transit legacy
SOVER-ASN is the legacy Sovernet ASN, now operated by FirstLight, a fiber network and data-centre provider across Vermont, New York and the wider Northeast. Sovernet was founded in 1995 and folded into FirstLight in 2017; the ARIN records now list FirstLight Networks, LLC as the holder.
What it's used for
- Internet access and IP transport for business, institutional and carrier customers on FirstLight's Northeast fiber footprint.
- The legacy Sovernet address space, which historically carried Vermont broadband and dial-up subscribers as well as data-centre customers.
Notable
- The ASN dates from Sovernet's 1995 ARIN registration, so the low number is a genuine mid-90s allocation rather than a reissue, even though the operator name has changed twice.
- FirstLight's build is fiber-transport-led: dedicated internet, wavelengths and colocation, including the Burlington, Vermont data centre inherited from Sovernet.
Interesting
- Sovernet's network was expanded with federal BTOP stimulus fiber in Vermont, and those route miles came across in the FirstLight combination.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 62 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS5738- Registry name
- FLASN-5738
- Registrant
- FirstLight Networks, LLC
- Abuse contact
- ipabuse@firstlight.net
- Registered
- 1995-09-13
- Last changed
- 2026-04-22
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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.
Elsewhere