Autonomous system
AS7849 APC-CC
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
RingSquared (Crocker Communications)
isp legacy
APC-CC is registered today to RingSquared CC, the New Jersey-based RingSquared group's entity for Crocker Communications, a Greenfield and Springfield, Massachusetts telecom founded in 1963. RingSquared completed the acquisition of Crocker in October 2024, and the AS came with it.
What it's used for
- Regional connectivity in western Massachusetts: internet access, business phone systems, managed Wi-Fi and cabling for a customer base Crocker described as roughly two thousand government, education and residential accounts.
- The address space is a single legacy allocation,
161.77.0.0/16, still registered under the network nameCROCKERNETwith a 1992 ARIN registration date. It is announced as the /16 plus a scattering of more-specifics. - AS7849 sits behind AccessPlus (a sibling company in the same group) and has one downstream, RingSquared's AS22301.
Notable
- The customer mix is genuinely split across kinds — municipal and school accounts alongside home subscribers — and the space carries no public reverse DNS to separate them, so the AS resists a single confident classification. It should not be treated as pure consumer eyeball space or pure business space.
- The registered contact on the /16 is still Crocker Communications in Greenfield, Massachusetts, while the AS holder record now points at Mahwah, New Jersey. Geolocation should follow the network, which is in western Massachusetts, not the corporate headquarters.
Interesting
- Crocker began life in 1963 as a regional telephone answering service and ended up holding a 1992-vintage Class B. The ARIN records still read
CROCKERNETdecades after the company stopped being a phone-answering business, and now several months after it stopped being a company at all.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX New York | New York, United States | 2001:504:36::1ea9:0:1 |
| Massachusetts Internet Exchange | Boston, United States | 206.53.143.29 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 1 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS11178 | AccessPlus | 240 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 9 prefixes · 65.54K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 9 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS7849- Registry name
- APC-CC
- Registrant
- RingSquared CC
- Abuse contact
- ip-admin@ringsquared.com
- Registered
- 1997-01-27
- Last changed
- 2025-09-10
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 4 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS7849
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 24 naming AS7849
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 1,781 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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