Autonomous system
AS6682 GNC-ALFA -Telia-
Unclassified RIPE
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.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS49800 | GNC-Alfa CJSC | 63 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-16, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| 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
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS6682
- ASPA
- 2 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS6682
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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: 442 networks and 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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