Autonomous system
AS9609 BBIX-CDN BBIX, Inc.
Unclassified ARIN Content
Summary
BBIX, Inc.
hosting ixp legacy
AS9609 (BBIX-CDN) is held by BBIX, Inc., a wholly owned SoftBank subsidiary and one of Asia's leading internet-exchange operators. BBIX runs peering fabrics across Tokyo, Osaka, Okinawa, Singapore, Hong Kong and Bangkok, and has extended a node to the United States.
What it's used for
Read the network, not the name. Whatever the operator does at scale, this AS is tiny: a single announced IPv4 prefix, 61.245.110.0/24, for 256 addresses, plus one IPv6 /48, 2403:c780:a991::/48, and 6 observed BGP neighbours. That is not an exchange fabric. IXP peering LANs are generally not carried in the global table at all, and a network with 256 routed addresses is not a content-delivery platform of any consequence either. What the shape does fit is a small service or infrastructure AS: a handful of hosts that BBIX needs to originate from its own ASN, announced to a small set of directly connected networks. The -CDN suffix on the handle is a label, not evidence of function, and the routing table does not corroborate a content-delivery role at present.
Notable
- Do not treat this AS as "BBIX the internet exchange". The exchange business is the company's product; this AS number is a small piece of its own address estate.
- The single /24 sits in
61.245.0.0, legacy APNIC space, consistent with an allocation made long before the current SoftBank-era BBIX business took its present shape. - Six neighbours on 256 addresses is a closed, purposeful network. There is no downstream customer base here.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BroadBand Internet eXchange Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 101.203.90.25 |
| BroadBand Internet eXchange Osaka | Osaka, Japan | 218.100.9.146 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS17676 | SoftBank Corp. | 90 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-30, 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 · 256 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| JP | Japan | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS9609- Registry name
- BBIX-CDN
- Registered
- 1999-08-05
- Last changed
- 2022-10-11
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- BBIX CDN
- Network type
- Content
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Heavy Outbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- Present at
- 3 exchanges
- Facilities
- 2 facilities
- Website
- https://www.bbix.net/en/
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
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS9609
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS9609
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: 447 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-10-30. 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