Autonomous system
AS8218 NEO-ASN Zayo Europe
Unclassified RIPE NSP
Summary
Zayo Europe (Zayo Infrastructure France)
transit isp legacy
The European backbone Autonomous System of Zayo Infrastructure France SA (NEO-ASN), the former Neo Telecoms, a French carrier Zayo acquired and folded into its European network. It is a genuine IP-transit and wholesale network, not an eyeball ISP.
What it's used for
- IP transit, wavelengths, dark fibre and Ethernet transport for carriers, content networks, hosting providers and large enterprises across France and wider Europe.
- Reverse DNS on the announced space is entirely backbone router naming of the form
xe-N-N-N.terN.SITE.par.core.as8218.euandvlN.aeN.tcrN.gs.par.core.as8218.eu, with site codes for Paris data centres including Equinix. No subscriber or customer-pool naming appears at all.
Notable
- The peering count is the giveaway: thousands of observed BGP neighbours against a modest address inventory. That ratio only occurs on a transit and peering network, where the value is in the routes carried, not the addresses held.
- The
NEO-ASNhandle outlived the Neo Telecoms brand. The AS is Zayo's today, and the router rDNS still advertises the number itself (as8218.eu). - It announces a mix of ranges from several RIPE blocks, but unlike an address-leasing shape these all carry the operator's own coherent router rDNS.
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 22 exchanges in 11 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.192.13 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.209.53 |
| Neutral Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 193.239.116.173 |
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.236.1 |
| Milan Internet Exchange | Milan, Italy | 217.29.67.208 |
| London Network Access Point | London, United Kingdom | 5.57.80.210 |
| SwissIX | Zurich, Switzerland | 91.206.52.116 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Paris | Paris, France | 195.42.144.7 |
Transit providers
31 upstream, 661 downstream and 650 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS6461 | Zayo Bandwidth | 465 |
| AS6939 | Hurricane Electric LLC | 180 |
| AS34549 | meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG | 84 |
| AS9002 | RETN Limited | 58 |
| AS1299 | Arelion Sweden AB | 57 |
| AS1836 | green.ch AG | 23 |
| AS3333 | Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) | 23 |
| AS8280 | SYNAPSECOM S.A. Provider of Telecommunications and Internet Services | 23 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 18 prefixes · 47.10K addresses IPv6 4 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| FR | France | 22 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8218- Registry name
- NEO-ASN
- Registrant
- NEO-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@zayo.com
- Registered
- 2004-07-09
- Last changed
- 2026-08-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Zayo Europe
- Also known as
- Zayo France, Neo Telecoms, UpstreamNet (in Austria)
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
RIPE::AS-NEOT RIPE::AS-NEOT6- Present at
- 25 exchanges
- Facilities
- 41 facilities
- Website
- https://www.zayoeurope.com
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 78% valid · 18 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 22 authorising AS8218
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 23 of 23 announcements
- Route objects
- 32 naming AS8218
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 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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