Autonomous system
AS8145 GW
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Global Wire Oy (Trans-Atlantic Communications)
enterprise legacy
A small Finnish network. The ARIN handle is GW and the registered org is Trans-Atlantic Communications, but the operator on the wire today is Global Wire Oy (gw.fi, lir@global-wire.fi), based in Lappeenranta, which describes itself as providing turnkey security solutions for network connectivity.
What it's used for
- Global Wire's own network and the connectivity it provides to its customers, announced from a handful of prefixes — a RIPE
/22plus a legacy ARIN/24. - Router and gateway infrastructure across several Finnish sites: the rDNS is built from three-letter city codes, e.g.
vrrp-300.lpr.gw.fiandrns.kau.gw.fi.
Notable
- The name is a trap. "Trans-Atlantic Communications" sounds like a US or transatlantic carrier; the AS is a small Finnish operator, and its addresses belong in Finland, not North America.
- No subscriber-style rDNS appears anywhere in the space — only named gateway and service hosts. This is not an eyeball network.
Interesting
- The ASN was registered with ARIN in 1997, from the era when a European network could still take resources from what became the North American registry — hence the odd mix of an ARIN ASN and legacy
/24with modern RIPE space.
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 2026-10-20, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 1.28K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| FI | Finland | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS8145- Registry name
- GW
- Registrant
- Trans-Atlantic Communications
- Abuse contact
- lir@global-wire.fi
- Registered
- 1997-04-29
- Last changed
- 2000-03-07
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 89% valid · 8 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 8 authorising AS8145
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 89% registered · 8 of 9 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS8145
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 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-21. 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