Autonomous system
AS8896 XFIBER-AS
Unclassified RIPE NSP
Summary
Xfiber (GlobalConnect AS)
enterprise isp legacy
XFIBER-AS is the network of Xfiber, a Stavanger-founded (1995) Norwegian fibre operator selling low-latency internet and managed connectivity to the business market. It was bought by Broadnet in 2016; Broadnet became GlobalConnect, and Xfiber was folded fully into GlobalConnect from January 2024. The AS is still registered under the Xfiber handle, with GLOBALCONNECT AS as the holder.
What it's used for
- Business internet access and enterprise network services across Norway and the wider Nordics, plus transit for system integrators and smaller operators.
- Every sampled PTR follows one pattern:
1.185-15-216.static.xfiber.net,100.45-138-238.static.xfiber.net. Thestaticzone is the tell — these are fixed business assignments, not dynamic consumer pools. There is nodsl,pppoeordynnaming anywhere in the sample.
Notable
- Around 27k IPv4 addresses over 19 prefixes, 7 IPv6 prefixes, and roughly 48 observed BGP neighbours — a well-peered mid-size carrier rather than a mass-market eyeball network.
- PoPs are listed at Stavanger, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen and London.
Interesting
- The
ASin "GlobalConnect AS" is Norwegian aksjeselskap (a limited company), not "autonomous system" — a coincidence that reads oddly in the holder string.
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 6 exchanges in 4 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.226.13 |
| STHIX - Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 192.121.80.170 |
| Stockholm Internet Exchange | Stockholm, Sweden | 192.121.80.170 |
| Norwegian Internet Exchange Oslo 1 | Oslo, Norway | 185.1.55.15 |
| Free Internet eXchange Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 91.198.176.22 |
| STHIX - Copenhagen | Copenhagen, Denmark | 185.1.88.23 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 13 downstream and 32 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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 21 prefixes · 26.88K addresses IPv6 31 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NO | Norway | 52 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8896- Registry name
- XFIBER-AS
- Registrant
- AS2116-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@globalconnect.no
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2026-05-29
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- GlobalConnect AS8896
- Also known as
- Xfiber
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- No
- IRR as-set
RIPE::AS-XFIBER- Present at
- 3 exchanges
- Website
- https://www.globalconnect.net/
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
- 84% valid · 21 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 23 authorising AS8896
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 25 of 25 announcements
- Route objects
- 37 naming AS8896
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: 432 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