Autonomous system
AS9507 NEXTHOP-AS-AP NextHop Pty Ltd
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
NextHop Pty Ltd
transit isp hosting legacy
AS9507 (NEXTHOP-AS-AP) is held by NextHop Pty Ltd, an Australian telecommunications carrier based in Sydney. NextHop sells dark fibre, IP transit and high-capacity internet access over its own build, so this is a wholesale carrier network rather than a consumer ISP.
What it's used for
The evidence points squarely at transit. AS9507 announces just 9 IPv4 prefixes — about 4,352 addresses in total — plus three IPv6 /48s from 2405:e480::/32. That is a very small inventory. Yet the AS is observed with roughly 91 BGP neighbours. A network with only a few thousand addresses and ninety-odd peers is not serving its own users; it is carrying other networks' traffic. The address count reflects infrastructure and customer allocations, while the value of the AS sits in the interconnections and the fibre underneath it.
The prefixes themselves are consistent with an Australian carrier that has grown by picking up allocations over time: a 180.222.192.0/22 alongside a scatter of /23s and /24s from APNIC's 103.0.0.0/8 range. Sampled reverse DNS shows a router interface named et0-0-41-341.fi02.syd02.nexthop.net.au — an Ethernet interface on a Sydney facility, exactly the naming a carrier uses for its own backbone gear — and a separate hostname belonging to an Australian business customer riding the same space.
Notable
- NextHop is a facilities-based operator: it builds and lights its own fibre rather than reselling.
- The high neighbour-to-address ratio is the clearest single signal here that this is wholesale transit, not access.
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 10 exchanges in 4 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 27.111.228.190 |
| BroadBand Internet eXchange Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 101.203.90.141 |
| Coresite - Any2 West | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.211.201 |
| Any2 California | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.211.201 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Sydney | Sydney, Australia | 45.127.172.147 |
| Edge Internet Exchange - Sydney | Sydney, Australia | 202.77.88.5 |
| Edge Internet Exchange - Perth | Perth, Australia | 103.136.102.20 |
| Edge Internet Exchange - Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 202.77.90.38 |
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 6 prefixes · 4.35K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9507- Registry name
- NEXTHOP-AS-AP
- Registrant
- NextHop Pty Ltd
- Abuse contact
- nexthop@nexthop.com.au
- Registered
- 2016-07-21
- Last changed
- 2020-06-22
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 13 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS9507
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 13 of 13 announcements
- Route objects
- 32 naming AS9507
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