Autonomous system
AS9540 VELOCIXLIMITED-AS-AP VELOCIX LIMITED
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Velocix
cdn hosting legacy
AS9540 (VELOCIXLIMITED-AS-AP) is held by Velocix Limited, a London-headquartered software company that builds carrier-grade video streaming and CDN platforms — origin servers, cloud DVR, content delivery and analytics — sold to telecom and cable operators. Despite the low, legacy AS number, this particular AS is Velocix's Indian presence, and its PeeringDB record places it in Chennai.
What it's used for
The routing evidence describes a compact content-delivery footprint, not a service provider network. RIS sees only 2 IPv4 prefixes — 103.131.48.0/24 and 103.131.49.0/24, 512 addresses in total — plus one IPv6 /48 (2001:df7:100::/48). Two BGP neighbours are observed. There is no aggregation to speak of, no subscriber-scale address space, and no sign of a transit business.
PeeringDB lists the network at Extreme IX Chennai for public peering and Nxtra Data Chennai DC 1 as its interconnection facility, with an open peering policy and traffic in the 1–5 Gbps range. Read together, this is a CDN edge or origin deployment: a small block of addresses in one Indian metro, peering openly at a local exchange so that content is delivered cheaply and close to the eyeball networks that consume it. The open peering policy is characteristic of a content network — a CDN wants as many direct paths to viewers as it can get, and gives peering away to obtain them.
Notable
- Velocix's business is selling CDN and streaming software to operators, so an AS like this serves the company's own delivery infrastructure rather than a retail customer base.
- The open peering policy and single-metro presence are consistent with a content node, not a distributed platform.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Extreme IX Chennai | Chennai, India | 45.120.251.13 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS9498 | BHARTI Airtel Ltd. | 155 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IN | India | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9540- Registry name
- VELOCIXLIMITED-AS-AP
- Registrant
- VELOCIX LIMITED
- Abuse contact
- dinesh.birlasekaran@velocix.com
- Registered
- 2018-10-17
- Last changed
- 2020-07-14
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS9540
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS9540
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 1,772 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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