Autonomous system
AS855 CANET-ASN-4
Mobile ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Bell Canada
isp mobile eyeball backbone
Bell Canada (CANET-ASN-4) — one of Canada's largest telecom operators, providing mobile, home internet, and TV service nationwide.
What it's used for
- Mobile data (Bell Mobility), fixed broadband, and TV for residential and business customers, including the Bell Aliant footprint in Atlantic Canada.
Notable
- A large Canadian "eyeball" network; addresses here are typically home connections or mobile devices, often behind carrier-grade NAT.
- One of Canada's "big three" alongside Rogers and TELUS, and a national incumbent with significant backbone and transit reach.
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 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.136.89 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange New York | New York, United States | 198.32.118.165 |
Transit providers
6 upstream, 28 downstream and 42 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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 556 prefixes · 780K addresses IPv6 31 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 587 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS855- Registry name
- CANET-ASN-4
- Registrant
- Bell Canada
- Abuse contact
- abuse@bellnexxia.net
- Registered
- 1990-08-07
- Last changed
- 2017-09-22
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Bell Aliant Inc.
- Also known as
- Aliant
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Restrictive
- IRR as-set
RADB::AS-BELL-ALIANT- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Facilities
- 4 facilities
- Website
- http://www.bellaliant.ca
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
- 94% valid · 788 valid, 47 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 74 authorising AS855
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 99% registered · 824 of 835 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 1,335 naming AS855
Reputation
Classification and threat
Mobile Cellular carrier. Addresses are shared by many handsets via CGNAT.
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: 436 networks and 1,771 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