Autonomous system
AS6830 LIBERTYGLOBAL Liberty Global formerly UPC Broadband Holding, aka AORTA
Residential RIPE Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Liberty Global
isp cable backbone
Liberty Global's pan-European backbone (LIBERTYGLOBAL, historically AORTA / UPC Broadband) — the core network behind its cable-broadband operators.
What it's used for
- Backbone and internet connectivity for Liberty Global's European cable brands (such as Telenet, Sunrise/UPC, and its joint ventures), plus wholesale.
Notable
- Largely an "eyeball"-serving backbone: it aggregates and carries traffic for millions of cable-broadband subscribers across several countries.
- Liberty Global's structure changes as it buys, sells, and forms JVs (e.g. Virgin Media O2 in the UK), so the operators behind it shift over time.
Interesting
- "AORTA" was the long-time name of the UPC/Liberty European backbone and still shows up in its network naming.
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 14 exchanges in 8 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.89 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.208.106 |
| Neutral Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 193.239.118.146 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.236.117 |
| Peering.cz | Prague, Czech Republic | 185.0.20.181 |
| ERA-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 185.1.240.250 |
| InterLAN-IX | Bucharest, Romania | 2001:7f8:64:225::6830:1 |
| Internet Neutral Exchange Association CLG - LAN1 | Dublin, Ireland | 185.6.36.39 |
Transit providers
24 upstream, 186 downstream and 340 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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 116 prefixes · 1.19M addresses IPv6 3 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NL | Netherlands | 119 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS6830- Registry name
- LibertyGlobal
- Registrant
- AS6830-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@libertyglobal.com
- Registered
- 2002-07-19
- Last changed
- 2025-10-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Liberty Global
- Also known as
- UPC Distribution Services, UPC Broadband, UGC Europe, LGI, chello, aorta
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Global
- Peering policy
- Restrictive
- IRR as-set
RIPE::AS6830:AS-AORTA- Present at
- 17 exchanges
- Facilities
- 25 facilities
- Website
- http://www.libertyglobal.com/
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
- 100% valid · 176 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 179 authorising AS6830
- ASPA
- 1 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 176 of 176 announcements
- Route objects
- 197 naming AS6830
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: 442 networks and 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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