AS8002 — STEALTH

AS8002 announces 9 IPv4 prefixes covering 24,064 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

STEALTH — Stealth Communications Services, LLC, a fibre-optic Internet service provider that builds and operates its own network under the streets of New York City. Founded in 1995, it sells dedicated business connectivity in Manhattan and the outer boroughs.

What it's used for

• Dedicated fibre internet access for businesses: Stealth lights its own fibre and hands each customer a wavelength rather than a shared access medium.
• Transit and interconnection for those customers out of NYC carrier hotels.

Notable

• This is a business network, not an eyeball one. Its addressing is handed to companies at fixed sites; there are no dynamic subscriber pools and almost no generic reverse DNS at all — the names that do resolve belong to individual customer hosts.
• The AS carries only a handful of prefixes (roughly 25k IPv4 addresses out of 206.252.192.0/19 and 207.251.64.0/18, plus 2001:458::/32) yet shows dozens of BGP neighbours. Dense peering on a small address footprint is the shape of a metro fibre operator sitting on the NYC exchanges.
• An address here most often belongs to an office, not a home and not a datacentre tenant.

Interesting

• Stealth entered a public/private partnership with the City of New York in 2015 to extend fibre into the Brooklyn and Queens industrial business zones.
• Both the ASN and the early 2001:458::/32 IPv6 allocation date from the era when a mid-sized regional ISP could still get a two-byte AS number.

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

Announced prefixes

• 192.68.29.0/24
• 206.252.192.0/19
• 207.251.64.0/19
• 207.251.98.0/23
• 207.251.100.0/22
• 207.251.104.0/23
• 207.251.107.0/24
• 207.251.108.0/22
• 207.251.112.0/20
• 2001:458::/32

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS2914 NTT America, Inc.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS29632 Netassist International EOOD
• AS13030 Init7 (Switzerland) Ltd.

Downstream networks

• AS42228 Brightstar Limited
• AS1996 Fairdinkum Consulting, LLC
• AS53316 CHEETAHMAIL
• AS6685 Grapevine Labs LLC
• AS20029 H5 Data Centers
• AS26535 American Musical & Dramatic Academy Inc.
• AS393925 Samuel A. Ramirez & Company, Inc
• AS402740 GRUMPYTOWN

Adjacent networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS2914 NTT America, Inc.
• AS42228 Brightstar Limited
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS1996 Fairdinkum Consulting, LLC
• AS53316 CHEETAHMAIL
• AS6685 Grapevine Labs LLC
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS20029 H5 Data Centers
• AS26535 American Musical & Dramatic Academy Inc.
• AS393925 Samuel A. Ramirez & Company, Inc
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS402740 GRUMPYTOWN
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS29632 Netassist International EOOD
• AS13030 Init7 (Switzerland) Ltd.

Internet exchanges

• DE-CIX New York — New York, United States
• New York International Internet Exchange — New York, United States
• Digital Realty New York Internet Exchange — New York, United States