AS5568 — RBNET

AS5568 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 768 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

RBNet is the Russian Backbone Network, the interdepartmental backbone that connects Russia's regional science and education networks. It was built by RIPN (RosNIIROS, the Russian Institute for Public Networks) and is registered today to the joint-stock company behind MSK-IX.

What it's used for

• Backbone transit between regional research and education networks, with nodes spread across Russia's federal districts, rather than direct end-user access.
• The holder also operates MSK-IX, Russia's principal internet exchange, so this AS sits alongside exchange-point infrastructure rather than a commercial customer base.

Notable

• RIPN was the organisation that both ran the academic backbone and founded the Moscow exchange, an unusually direct link between a country's research network and its main peering fabric.
• The announced footprint is small for a backbone. That is expected: a transit AS for other networks carries routes, not large pools of its own addresses.

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

Announced prefixes

• 194.226.68.0/24
• 195.209.3.0/24
• 195.209.14.0/24
• 2001:6d0:ffff::/48

Upstream networks

• AS31133 PJSC MegaFon
• AS8985 Join-stock company "Internet Exchange"MSK-IX"
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS49673 Truenetwork LLC
• AS25091 IP-Max SA

Downstream networks

• AS3316 Join-stock company "Internet Exchange"MSK-IX"

Adjacent networks

• AS31133 PJSC MegaFon
• AS8985 Join-stock company "Internet Exchange"MSK-IX"
• AS3316 Join-stock company "Internet Exchange"MSK-IX"
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS49673 Truenetwork LLC
• AS25091 IP-Max SA

Internet exchanges

• MSK-IX Moscow — Moscow, Russia