Autonomous system
AS8801 AS-ROCKET United Kingdom
Unclassified RIPE NCC Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Rocket Fibre Ltd
transit isp legacy
ROCKETFIBRE (the worklist handle still reads AS-ROCKET United Kingdom) is Rocket Fibre Ltd, a UK network that today sells DDoS-protected IP transit and wholesale carrier capacity, with routing nodes at Telehouse North and Equinix LD8 in London.
What it's used for
The tell is in the peering, not the address count. Rocket Fibre announces only ~9,700 IPv4 addresses across seven prefixes, but shows 227 observed BGP neighbours. That ratio — a small address holding behind a very large peer count — is the signature of a transit and peering business rather than an eyeball network. The company markets IP transit commits from 10 Mbit up to 10 Gbit and peers with the major UK networks.
Sampled reverse DNS across 83.167.184.0/22 returns generic first-party naming of the form ip-A-B-C-D.rocket-fibre.co.uk — operator-assigned addresses with no dsl, pppoe, dyn or pool markers to indicate a consumer subscriber base.
Notable
- The company has a broadband history it has been shedding: it ran a legacy UK fixed-wireless broadband service and moved in 2025 to disconnect those remaining users. The AS's centre of gravity is now wholesale transit, so classifying it from the "Fibre" name as a retail ISP would describe the past, not the present.
- The address inventory mixes UK RIPE space (
83.167.0.0blocks) with154.xand193.56.176.0/22assignments, consistent with a network accumulating blocks over a long life rather than a single clean allocation.
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 27 exchanges in 14 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| IX.br (PTT.br) São Paulo | São Paulo, Brazil | 187.16.209.39 |
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.194.149 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.228.20 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.212.254 |
| Neutral Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 193.239.117.62 |
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.238.195 |
| Milan Internet Exchange | Milan, Italy | 217.29.67.235 |
| Giganet Internet Exchange | Kyiv, Ukraine | 185.1.63.200 |
Transit providers
32 upstream, 9 downstream and 75 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 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 7 prefixes · 9.73K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 8 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE NCC
- Registered
- 1998-05-28
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Rocket Fibre
- Also known as
- Rocket Fibre
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Global
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS8801:AS-ROCKET- Present at
- 43 exchanges
- Facilities
- 21 facilities
- Website
- http://www.rocket-fibre.co.uk/wholesale
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 · 7 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 13 authorising AS8801
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 9 of 9 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS8801
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 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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