AS8801 — AS-ROCKET United Kingdom

AS8801 announces 7 IPv4 prefixes covering 9,728 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

ROCKETFIBRE (the worklist handle still reads AS-ROCKET United Kingdom) is Rocket Fibre Ltd, a UK network that today sells DDoS-protected IP transit and wholesale carrier capacity, with routing nodes at Telehouse North and Equinix LD8 in London.

What it's used for

The tell is in the peering, not the address count. Rocket Fibre announces only ~9,700 IPv4 addresses across seven prefixes, but shows 227 observed BGP neighbours. That ratio — a small address holding behind a very large peer count — is the signature of a transit and peering business rather than an eyeball network. The company markets IP transit commits from 10 Mbit up to 10 Gbit and peers with the major UK networks.

Sampled reverse DNS across 83.167.184.0/22 returns generic first-party naming of the form ip-A-B-C-D.rocket-fibre.co.uk — operator-assigned addresses with no dsl, pppoe, dyn or pool markers to indicate a consumer subscriber base.

Notable

• The company has a broadband history it has been shedding: it ran a legacy UK fixed-wireless broadband service and moved in 2025 to disconnect those remaining users. The AS's centre of gravity is now wholesale transit, so classifying it from the "Fibre" name as a retail ISP would describe the past, not the present.
• The address inventory mixes UK RIPE space (83.167.0.0 blocks) with 154.x and 193.56.176.0/22 assignments, consistent with a network accumulating blocks over a long life rather than a single clean allocation.

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

Announced prefixes

• 83.167.160.0/20
• 83.167.176.0/21
• 83.167.184.0/22
• 154.51.145.0/24
• 154.62.188.0/22
• 185.222.21.0/24
• 193.56.176.0/22
• 2a10:f301::/32

Upstream networks

• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS6453 TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS50304 Blix Solutions AS
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS208972 GIBIRNET ILETISIM HIZMETLERI SANAYI VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI
• AS50628 Leonix Telecom SAS
• AS3333 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS1836 green.ch AG
• AS58057 Securebit AG
• AS204092 Association GRIFON
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS6696 VERIXI SA
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS59919 Brainbox S.r.l.
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS202365 Omer GOLGELI
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.

Downstream networks

• AS16353 Merula Limited
• AS59778 Synextra Limited
• AS203649 GO INTERNET LTD
• AS215262 Cloud Nord Limited
• AS59455 Clearstream Technology ltd
• AS60255 Internetty Ltd
• AS212174 Jola Cloud Solutions Ltd
• AS200581 TfW Fibre Ltd
• AS212815 Dyjix SAS

Adjacent networks

• AS16353 Merula Limited
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS6453 TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC
• AS212815 Dyjix SAS
• AS59778 Synextra Limited
• AS203649 GO INTERNET LTD
• AS215262 Cloud Nord Limited
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS60255 Internetty Ltd
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS59455 Clearstream Technology ltd
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS212174 Jola Cloud Solutions Ltd
• AS202365 Omer GOLGELI
• AS59919 Brainbox S.r.l.
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS50304 Blix Solutions AS
• AS3741 Dimension Data
• AS50628 Leonix Telecom SAS
• AS3333 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
• AS208972 GIBIRNET ILETISIM HIZMETLERI SANAYI VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI
• AS204092 Association GRIFON
• AS1836 green.ch AG
• AS200581 TfW Fibre Ltd

Internet exchanges

• IX.br (PTT.br) São Paulo — São Paulo, Brazil
• DE-CIX Frankfurt — Frankfurt, Germany
• LINX LON1 — London, United Kingdom
• AMS-IX Amsterdam — Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Neutral Internet Exchange — Amsterdam, Netherlands
• France-IX Paris — Paris, France
• Milan Internet Exchange — Milan, Italy
• Giganet Internet Exchange — Kyiv, Ukraine
• London Network Access Point — London, United Kingdom
• Speed Internet Exchange — Dronten, Netherlands
• DE-CIX New York — New York, United States
• NetIX — Sofia, Bulgaria
• SwissIX — Zurich, Switzerland
• DE-CIX Madrid — Madrid, Spain
• Peering.cz — Prague, Czech Republic
• ESpanix Madrid Lower LAN — Madrid, Spain
• Nine IX — Paris, France
• LINX Manchester — Manchester, United Kingdom
• EuroGIX — Strasbourg, France
• Internet Neutral Exchange Association CLG - LAN1 — Dublin, Ireland
• DE-CIX Marseille — Marseille, France
• LayerSwitch Internet Exchange — The Hague, Netherlands
• Internet Neutral Exchange Association CLG - LAN2 — Dublin, Ireland
• DE-CIX Lisbon — Lisbon, Portugal
• DE-CIX Barcelona — Barcelona, Spain