Autonomous system
AS6977 AS-LAYERSWITCH
Hosting AFRINIC Network Services
Summary
LayerSwitch, Inc
hosting legacy
LayerSwitch, Inc (AS-LAYERSWITCH), a hosting and network provider registered in Miami, Florida, and the US arm of the LayerSwitch group.
What it's used for
- Hosting and IP transit-adjacent services; reverse DNS on its space follows the generic
static-10-16-188-23.layerswitch.netpattern typical of hosting and dedicated server assignments. - Announces a small set of
/24s from23.188.16.0/21plus IPv6.
Notable
- This is a reissued AS number: it was registered to LayerSwitch in April 2021, so its low number carries no early-internet pedigree.
- Sibling ASNs operate under LayerSwitch B.V. in the Netherlands, and its upstream is a Dutch network — a US-registered entity fronting a European hosting group.
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 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS6206 | Netrouting B.V. | 271 |
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 4 prefixes · 1.28K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS6977- Registry name
- AS-LAYERSWITCH
- Registrant
- LayerSwitch, Inc
- Abuse contact
- abuse@layerswitch.com
- Registered
- 2021-04-15
- Last changed
- 2021-04-18
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- LayerSwitch
- Also known as
- LayerSwitch, Inc
- Network type
- Network Services
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS-LAYERSWITCH- Facilities
- 15 facilities
- Website
- https://layerswitch.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 · 6 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 13 authorising AS6977
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 18 naming AS6977
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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