Autonomous system
AS6682 GNC-ALFA -Telia-
Unclassified RIPE
IPv4 addresses
1.02K
1 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes
0
counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries
1
mostly AM
Flagged prefixes
0
none
Summary
GNC-Alfa (OVIO)
transit legacy
GNC-ALFA is GNC-Alfa CJSC, an Armenian telecommunications operator based in
Abovyan. It is a Rostelecom subsidiary and was rebranded to OVIO in 2024.
What it's used for
- Wholesale transport: capacity and IP transit sold to fixed and mobile operators and to ISPs, plus transit through Armenia between neighbouring countries.
- A small routed footprint for its role — about 1k IPv4 addresses from a single
/22. A wholesale transport operator carries other networks' traffic; it does not need much address space of its own.
Notable
- The company owns a fibre-optic backbone laid along the Iran–Armenia gas pipeline, which gives it a physically distinctive route into the region.
- Rostelecom acquired a controlling stake in 2012 and full ownership by 2019.
Interesting
- Do not read the name as Belarusian, Moldovan or Russian — despite the Cyrillic corporate lineage, GNC-Alfa is an Armenian network, and its strategic value is precisely that Armenia sits between the Caucasus, Iran and the Black Sea cable routes.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AM | Armenia | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS6682- Registry name
- GNC-ALFA
- Registrant
- MNT-GNC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@gnc.am
- Registered
- 2010-03-12
- Last changed
- 2026-05-11
- 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