AS1383 — ANSBB-ASNNET-2

AS1383 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A legacy backbone allocation (ANSBB-ASNNET-2) now held by Verizon Business. The ANSBB handle traces to Advanced Network and Services (ANS), the operator of ANSNET.

What it's used for

• Carrier/transit routing within the Verizon Business network.

Notable

• ANS built ANSNET, the T3 backbone behind the NSFNET Backbone Service in the early 1990s. Its networking business moved to AOL, then WorldCom, MCI, and ultimately Verizon.

Interesting

• One of a small block of ANSBB autonomous systems (AS1325 and siblings) carried forward from the NSFNET-era backbone.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 152.196.118.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS1339 Verizon Business

Downstream networks

• AS13671 Verizon Business

Adjacent networks

• AS1339 Verizon Business
• AS13671 Verizon Business