Autonomous system
AS8449 AS8449-ELCAT
Unclassified RIPE Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
ElCat
isp transit business legacy
ElCat Ltd. (AS8449-ELCAT) — a Kyrgyz telecom operator based in Bishkek, operating since 1994 and one of the country's oldest and largest internet providers, with its own fibre backbone.
What it's used for
- IP transit, dedicated channels and IP VPN for corporate customers, government organisations and other Kyrgyz operators, including the country's cellular carriers.
- The address space reflects that: static assignments under
NAME.static.elcat.kg, named customer hosts (global-tours.elcat.kg,netsolution.elcat.kg), voice gear (gkbox1.voip.kg) and access gateways. Generic sequential names of the formIP-ADDR-IP-ADDR.elcat.kgcover the rest.
Notable
- Despite being a household ISP name in Kyrgyzstan, the inventory and the company's own description are business-first: corporate connectivity, operator transit and cross-border capacity, not mass-market broadband pools. There are no dial-up, DSL or dynamic-subscriber naming conventions anywhere in the sampled rDNS.
- Well peered for its size — roughly 16,000 IPv4 addresses but dozens of BGP neighbours, which is what an operator-of-operators looks like.
Interesting
- ElCat built the first cross-border fibre link from Kyrgyzstan into Kazakhstan (Bishkek to Kordai) in 2009. In a landlocked, mountainous country, whoever owns the border crossings owns the internet economics.
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 2 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| MSK-IX Moscow | Moscow, Russia | 195.208.210.194 |
| KG-IX | Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan | 185.1.110.9 |
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 17 prefixes · 12.54K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KG | Kyrgyzstan | 18 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8449- Registry name
- AS8449-ELCAT
- Registrant
- ELCAT-RIPE-MNT
- Abuse contact
- netgroup@elcat.kg
- Registered
- 2001-11-29
- Last changed
- 2026-07-06
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- ElCat AS8449
- Also known as
- ElCat
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Heavy Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
RIPE::AS-ELCAT RIPE::AS-ELCAT-V6- Present at
- 3 exchanges
- Website
- http://www.elcat.kg
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
- 100% valid · 51 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 8 authorising AS8449
- ASPA
- 3 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 51 of 51 announcements
- Route objects
- 63 naming AS8449
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