Autonomous system
AS8002 STEALTH
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Stealth Communications
isp business legacy
STEALTH — Stealth Communications Services, LLC, a fibre-optic Internet service provider that builds and operates its own network under the streets of New York City. Founded in 1995, it sells dedicated business connectivity in Manhattan and the outer boroughs.
What it's used for
- Dedicated fibre internet access for businesses: Stealth lights its own fibre and hands each customer a wavelength rather than a shared access medium.
- Transit and interconnection for those customers out of NYC carrier hotels.
Notable
- This is a business network, not an eyeball one. Its addressing is handed to companies at fixed sites; there are no dynamic subscriber pools and almost no generic reverse DNS at all — the names that do resolve belong to individual customer hosts.
- The AS carries only a handful of prefixes (roughly 25k IPv4 addresses out of
206.252.192.0/19and207.251.64.0/18, plus2001:458::/32) yet shows dozens of BGP neighbours. Dense peering on a small address footprint is the shape of a metro fibre operator sitting on the NYC exchanges. - An address here most often belongs to an office, not a home and not a datacentre tenant.
Interesting
- Stealth entered a public/private partnership with the City of New York in 2015 to extend fibre into the Brooklyn and Queens industrial business zones.
- Both the ASN and the early
2001:458::/32IPv6 allocation date from the era when a mid-sized regional ISP could still get a two-byte AS number.
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 3 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX New York | New York, United States | 206.82.104.194 |
| New York International Internet Exchange | New York, United States | 198.32.160.33 |
| Digital Realty New York Internet Exchange | New York, United States | 206.126.115.93 |
Transit providers
10 upstream, 8 downstream and 26 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 2026-10-19, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 14 prefixes · 24.06K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 15 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS8002- Registry name
- STEALTH
- Registrant
- Stealth Communications Services, LLC
- Abuse contact
- spandit@stealth.net
- Registered
- 1996-08-23
- Last changed
- 2024-06-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 80% valid · 4 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 5 authorising AS8002
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 11 naming AS8002
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 2026-10-20. 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