AS6682 — GNC-ALFA -Telia-

AS6682 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,024 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

GNC-ALFA is GNC-Alfa CJSC, an Armenian telecommunications operator based in Abovyan. It is a Rostelecom subsidiary and was rebranded to OVIO in 2024.

What it's used for

• Wholesale transport: capacity and IP transit sold to fixed and mobile operators and to ISPs, plus transit through Armenia between neighbouring countries.
• A small routed footprint for its role — about 1k IPv4 addresses from a single /22. A wholesale transport operator carries other networks' traffic; it does not need much address space of its own.

Notable

• The company owns a fibre-optic backbone laid along the Iran–Armenia gas pipeline, which gives it a physically distinctive route into the region.
• Rostelecom acquired a controlling stake in 2012 and full ownership by 2019.

Interesting

• Do not read the name as Belarusian, Moldovan or Russian — despite the Cyrillic corporate lineage, GNC-Alfa is an Armenian network, and its strategic value is precisely that Armenia sits between the Caucasus, Iran and the Black Sea cable routes.

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

Announced prefixes

• 37.186.80.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS49800 GNC-Alfa CJSC

Adjacent networks

• AS49800 GNC-Alfa CJSC