Autonomous system
AS8116 BOSTON-SCIENTIFIC-132-189-0-0
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Boston Scientific
enterprise healthcare legacy
BOSTON-SCIENTIFIC-132-189-0-0 is a corporate Autonomous System of Boston Scientific, the medical-device manufacturer headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts. The ARIN registrant object still reads Guidant Corporation, the Indianapolis cardiac-device company Boston Scientific acquired — the contacts on the record resolve to "Boston Scientific / Guidant Corp" and to BSCI Network Engineering at the Marlborough campus.
What it's used for
- The company's own internet-facing corporate systems. Reverse DNS inside
204.155.16.0/22lands onwww.bostonscientific.comand onbscfieldsource.comhosts, a field-service application for its device business. - Site connectivity for its US facilities, including the legacy
132.189.0.0/16space that gives the AS handle its name.
Notable
- This is an enterprise network, not hosting and not access. There are no subscriber pools; every sampled name is a first-party corporate or application host.
- It is small — about 3,300 addresses across nine prefixes — which is typical for a large manufacturer whose public web presence sits on CDNs and whose staff egress through a handful of corporate gateways.
Interesting
- The handle is a good example of a registry object outliving a corporate reorganisation: the AS name says Boston Scientific, the registrant org says Guidant, and the operational contacts say both.
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.
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 5 prefixes · 3.33K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS8116- Registry name
- BOSTON-SCIENTIFIC-132-189-0-0
- Registrant
- Guidant Corporation
- Abuse contact
- john.repucci@guidant.com
- Registered
- 1997-04-16
- Last changed
- 2023-05-22
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 9 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS8116
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 67% registered · 6 of 9 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS8116
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 1,782 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