Autonomous system
AS8194 VITA
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
LVRTC (Latvian state network, ex-VITA)
government legacy
VITA is the Autonomous System of Latvia's state data network. It is registered to VAS "Latvijas Valsts radio un televīzijas centrs" (LVRTC), the state-owned radio and television centre, which absorbed the Valsts informācijas tīkla aģentūra (VITA — the State Information Network Agency) when the two government companies were merged around 2010.
What it's used for
- Connectivity for Latvian state institutions: ministries, agencies and public administration. Reverse DNS in the space resolves under
vita.gov.lv(e.g.ep1.vita.gov.lv), which is the plainest possible evidence of what it carries. - LVRTC's own electronic-communications services, run over the same network.
Notable
- Classify this by use, not by holder. The holder is nominally a broadcasting company, but the AS is a government network, not a broadcaster's or an ISP's.
- The handle outlived its organisation: VITA the agency no longer exists, but its name persists in both the AS name and the reverse DNS.
Interesting
- VITA traces back to a 1992 government communications centre set up to serve Latvia's senior officials in the years right after independence, later broadened into the national state data-transmission network.
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 4 exchanges in 3 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| STHIX - Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 192.121.80.25 |
| Stockholm Internet Exchange | Stockholm, Sweden | 192.121.80.25 |
| Baltic Internet Exchange | Vilnius, Lithuania | 77.241.206.140 |
| Santa Monica Internet Local Exchange | Riga, Latvia | 195.246.227.42 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 18 downstream and 41 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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 21 prefixes · 11.52K addresses IPv6 8 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| LV | Latvia | 29 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8194- Registry name
- VITA
- Registrant
- AS8194-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@lvrtc.lv
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2026-06-12
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 9 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS8194
- ASPA
- 4 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 9 of 9 announcements
- Route objects
- 21 naming AS8194
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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