Autonomous system
AS7091 VIANET-ASN
Unclassified ARIN NSP
Summary
Next Level Connect (formerly via.net)
isp enterprise legacy
VIANET-ASN is the Silicon Valley network originally operated as via.net, now registered to Next Level Connect of Palo Alto, California, a subsidiary of NLX Communications. Router reverse names in the space still read pa.via.net, a fossil of the earlier operator.
What it's used for
- Fiber internet service in the San Francisco Bay Area and, more recently, Southern California. Next Level Connect markets symmetrical multi-gigabit fiber to office buildings, multi-dwelling units, HOAs and neighbourhoods.
- Carries the legacy
209.81.0.0/18block along with199.4.218.0/24.
Notable
- Reverse DNS in
209.81.0.0/18is a mix of provider infrastructure and named customer hosts (organisations and hosted services rather than numbered subscriber pools), which reads as a business and colocation-era ISP rather than a mass-market consumer network. - The ASN registration dates from 1996; the organisation record was replaced in 2024 when Next Level Connect took the resources over. The number was not reissued, it changed hands with the network.
Interesting
- via.net was one of the many independent Bay Area ISPs of the 1990s. The AS number, the /18, and the router naming all survived the operator that created them.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Palo Alto | Palo Alto, United States | 198.32.176.80 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS397379 | Next Level Connect | 130 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 7 prefixes · 12.29K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS7091- Registry name
- VIANET-ASN
- Registrant
- Next Level Connect
- Abuse contact
- noc@nextlevel.net
- Registered
- 1996-08-16
- Last changed
- 2025-05-06
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- ViaNet Communications
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
RADB::AS-VIANET- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- http://www.via.net
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
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS7091
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS7091
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: 446 networks and 1,852 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