Autonomous system
AS6079 RCN-AS
Residential ARIN
IPv4 addresses
4.06M
1,143 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes
118
counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries
1
mostly US
Flagged prefixes
0
none
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.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1,261 |
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
- 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.
Elsewhere