Autonomous system
AS577 BACOM
Mobile ARIN NSP
Summary
Bell Canada
isp eyeball backbone
Bell Canada (BACOM) — one of Canada's largest telecoms and the incumbent across much of Ontario and Quebec.
What it's used for
- Consumer and business fixed broadband (DSL and fibre) and mobile, plus a national backbone.
Notable
- A major Canadian "eyeball" network of end-user subscribers.
- Part of BCE, a vertically integrated group that also owns Bell Media.
Interesting
- Bell traces its lineage directly to the 19th-century Bell Telephone Company of Canada, making it one of the country's oldest companies.
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 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.236.203 |
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 206.81.80.217 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.136.66 |
| New York International Internet Exchange | New York, United States | 198.32.160.36 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange New York | New York, United States | 198.32.118.113 |
Transit providers
22 upstream, 310 downstream and 442 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 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1,160 prefixes · 6.86M addresses IPv6 60 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 1,220 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS577- Registry name
- BACOM
- Registrant
- Bell Canada
- Abuse contact
- abuse@bellnexxia.net
- Registered
- 1999-03-03
- Last changed
- 2006-01-30
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Bell Canada Backbone
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Restrictive
- IRR as-set
AS577:AS-CUSTOMERS- Present at
- 5 exchanges
- Facilities
- 4 facilities
- Website
- http://www.bell.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
- 99% valid · 16,042 valid, 178 with no ROA 1 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 210 authorising AS577
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0.0% registered · 7 of 16,221 announcements 45 other origin
- Route objects
- 13 naming AS577
Reputation
Classification and threat
Mobile Cellular carrier. Addresses are shared by many handsets via CGNAT.
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 2026-10-24. 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