Autonomous system
AS6079 RCN-AS
Residential ARIN
Summary
Astound (RCN)
isp residential eyeball cable fiber
AS6079 is the legacy RCN network, now part of Astound Broadband — a US residential cable and fibre ISP built from RCN, Grande, Wave and enTouch.
What it's used for
- Cable and fibre home internet for consumers in metros across the US, including parts of the Northeast, Chicago, DC, Texas and the West Coast.
Notable
- A large "eyeball" network: addresses here are home connections, commonly behind carrier-grade NAT, not servers.
- Astound is one of the larger US "overbuilder" cable operators, competing head-to-head with incumbents rather than holding a monopoly franchise.
Interesting
- The AS6079 origin dates to RCN, one of the earliest competitive fibre/cable overbuilders, before the Astound consolidation of RCN, Grande and Wave.
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 7 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.236.25 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.136.25 |
| DE-CIX New York | New York, United States | 206.82.104.145 |
| New York International Internet Exchange | New York, United States | 198.32.160.132 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange New York | New York, United States | 198.32.118.23 |
| Boston Internet Exchange | Boston, United States | 206.108.236.4 |
| DE-CIX Chicago | Chicago, United States | 149.112.11.22 |
Transit providers
20 upstream, 93 downstream and 137 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 1,557 prefixes · 4.69M addresses IPv6 127 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1,684 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6079- Registry name
- RCN-AS
- Registrant
- RCN
- Abuse contact
- abuse@rcn.com
- Registered
- 2001-04-04
- Last changed
- 2013-10-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 93% valid · 2,757 valid, 189 with no ROA 4 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 2,969 authorising AS6079
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 97% registered · 2,861 of 2,950 announcements 56 other origin
- Route objects
- 5,676 naming AS6079
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: 445 networks and 1,817 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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