AS5690 — VIANET INC 5690

Network type: residential

AS5690 announces 23 IPv4 prefixes covering 109,312 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Vianet Inc. is an independent telecommunications company based in Sudbury, Ontario, selling internet, telephone, and television service across Northern Ontario. It was founded in the mid-1990s and registered AS5690 with ARIN in 1995.

What it's used for

• Consumer and small-business broadband across Sudbury, Timmins, and the smaller communities of Northern Ontario, increasingly over fibre the company has built itself.

Notable

• An "eyeball" network: the addresses behind this ASN are mostly homes and small offices, not servers.
• Its inventory tells the story of a regional ISP that grew by accretion — over 80 announced prefixes, many of them small /22s and /24s picked up piecemeal rather than one large early block.

Interesting

• Northern Ontario is thinly populated and expensive to wire, so an independent operator surviving there against the national carriers is itself notable; Vianet has spent years extending its own fibre through Sudbury's neighbourhoods.

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

Announced prefixes

• 24.138.96.0/19
• 66.159.112.0/20
• 66.185.192.0/19
• 66.186.64.0/19
• 66.225.160.0/19
• 68.235.176.0/20
• 69.60.224.0/19
• 69.171.96.0/20
• 74.51.48.0/20
• 74.116.216.0/21
• 74.119.88.0/21
• 136.175.112.0/24
• 142.51.192.0/18
• 162.252.112.0/21
• 173.0.208.0/20
• 192.249.96.0/20
• 198.185.28.0/22
• 204.187.76.0/24
• 204.187.88.0/23
• 205.207.184.0/23
• 206.130.64.0/24
• 208.80.96.0/21
• 209.91.128.0/18
• 2606:8300::/28

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS

Downstream networks

• AS22060 Netspectrum Wireless Internet Solutions
• AS14673 FiberSpeed
• AS19595 Sudbury & District Health Unit
• AS400938 Highlands Internet Services Ltd.
• AS22494 7098693 Canada Inc.
• AS17042 Conseil scolaire de district catholique Franco-Nord
• AS32756 Cambrian College of Applied Arts & Technology
• AS54351 Communicate Freely

Adjacent networks

• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS22060 Netspectrum Wireless Internet Solutions
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS14673 FiberSpeed
• AS19595 Sudbury & District Health Unit
• AS400938 Highlands Internet Services Ltd.
• AS22494 7098693 Canada Inc.
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS17042 Conseil scolaire de district catholique Franco-Nord
• AS32756 Cambrian College of Applied Arts & Technology
• AS54351 Communicate Freely

Internet exchanges

• Toronto Internet Exchange — Toronto, Canada