Autonomous system
AS9680 HINETUSA HiNet Service Center in U.S.A
Residential APNIC Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
HiNet Service Center U.S.A. (Chunghwa Telecom)
isp transit legacy
AS9680 (HINETUSA) is the HiNet Service Center in the U.S.A., registered to the Data Communication Business Group of Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. — Taiwan's largest integrated telecom operator and the parent of the HiNet ISP brand. It is the US-facing arm of that network, distinct from HiNet's main Taiwanese AS.
What it's used for
The routing evidence describes a peering and presence AS rather than a service network. RIS sees exactly 1 IPv4 prefix carrying 4,096 addresses (202.39.80.0/20), no IPv6, and 43 observed BGP neighbours. That ratio is the point: a network with a single /20 to its name but four dozen BGP adjacencies is not an access network and is not a hosting farm. It is a carrier's overseas point of presence, exchanging routes at US interconnection points on behalf of the parent backbone and terminating the US-side services of Chunghwa's international business.
Reverse DNS on the sampled addresses resolves under hinet-ip.hinet.net, HiNet's generic assignment naming, so the space is used as ordinary HiNet-assigned addressing rather than being branded separately for a US product.
Notable
- Do not confuse this with HiNet's main Taiwanese eyeball network, which is a different and vastly larger AS. AS9680's role is US interconnection and service presence, not subscriber access.
- The single /20 has not grown: the AS exists for its peering position, not for the address space it holds.
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 5 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Coresite - Any2 West | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.210.25 |
| Any2 California | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.210.25 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Los Angeles | Los Angeles, United States | 206.223.123.39 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Palo Alto | Palo Alto, United States | 198.32.176.195 |
| Equinix Los Angeles IBX | Los Angeles, United States | 206.223.123.39 |
Transit providers
10 upstream, 4 downstream and 28 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 2026-10-14, 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 · 4.10K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| TW | Taiwan, Province of China | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9680- Registry name
- HINETUSA
- Abuse contact
- network-adm@hinet.net
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2025-11-06
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- HiNet Service Center in U.S.A
- Also known as
- HiNet Service Center in U.S.A
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Restrictive
- IRR as-set
AS-HINET- Present at
- 3 exchanges
- Facilities
- 2 facilities
- Website
- https://www.cht.com.tw/en/home/cht
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 · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 7 authorising AS9680
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS9680
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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 1,771 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