Autonomous system
AS8464 MAINGATE-AS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Sierra Wireless Sweden (Wireless Maingate)
mobile iot legacy
Sierra Wireless Sweden AB (maingate-AS) is the network of Wireless Maingate, a Swedish machine-to-machine connectivity provider founded in 1998 and bought by Sierra Wireless in 2015. Sierra Wireless itself was later acquired by Semtech.
What it's used for
- Managed cellular connectivity for IoT and M2M devices: metering, telematics, alarms, payment terminals and similar equipment, reached over partner mobile networks rather than the company's own radio access.
- The platform and core that terminates those device sessions and hands the traffic to customers.
Notable
- A carrier network in shape but not an eyeball or handset operator: the traffic is machines, not people. Around 2,000 IPv4 addresses over three prefixes plus an IPv6
/32, with only a couple of BGP neighbours. - Very little reverse DNS is published, which is normal for device-facing M2M address pools that are never meant to be reached from the outside.
Interesting
- The handle
maingate-ASoutlived the company that registered it: the AS has changed corporate owner at least twice, but the reference to Maingate's own M2M management platform remains in the registry.
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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 2026-10-17, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 2.05K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| SE | Sweden | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8464- Registry name
- maingate-AS
- Registrant
- Sierra Wireless Sweden AB
- Abuse contact
- network-data-ip@semtech.com
- Registered
- 2006-03-22
- Last changed
- 2026-10-05
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS8464
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS8464
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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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