Autonomous system
AS979 NETLAB-SDN
Hosting ARIN
Summary
NetLab Global
hosting legacy
An IP network and ISP backbone (NETLAB-SDN) operated by NetLab Global, based in New York, marketed as a premium IP and connectivity network.
What it's used for
- IP transit, address leasing, and hosting-style connectivity across North America.
Notable
- A commercial network operator, not a residential eyeball ISP.
- A low, three-digit AS number from the internet's early sequential allocations, now reassigned to its current holder.
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 4 exchanges in 3 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.194.169 |
| BroadBand Internet eXchange Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 101.203.90.169 |
| Hong Kong Internet Exchange | Hong Kong, China | 123.255.92.41 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Hong Kong | Hong Kong, China | 2001:de8:7::979:1 |
Transit providers
17 upstream, 7 downstream and 24 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 180 prefixes · 156K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 180 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS979- Registry name
- NETLAB-SDN
- Registrant
- NetLab Global
- Abuse contact
- legal@as979.net
- Registered
- 2022-06-24
- Last changed
- 2023-02-05
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 36% valid · 213 valid, 377 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 74 authorising AS979
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 99.3% registered · 586 of 590 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 599 naming AS979
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
2 IC3 indicators addresses in this network appear in FBI IC3 cybersecurity advisories.
| Prefix | Advisory | Published |
|---|---|---|
154.64.238.222 | China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems | 2026-08-26 |
154.64.238.247 | China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems | 2026-08-26 |
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere