AS9507 — NEXTHOP-AS-AP - NextHop Pty Ltd

AS9507 announces 6 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,352 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

AS9507 (NEXTHOP-AS-AP) is held by NextHop Pty Ltd, an Australian telecommunications carrier based in Sydney. NextHop sells dark fibre, IP transit and high-capacity internet access over its own build, so this is a wholesale carrier network rather than a consumer ISP.

What it's used for

The evidence points squarely at transit. AS9507 announces just 9 IPv4 prefixes — about 4,352 addresses in total — plus three IPv6 /48s from 2405:e480::/32. That is a very small inventory. Yet the AS is observed with roughly 91 BGP neighbours. A network with only a few thousand addresses and ninety-odd peers is not serving its own users; it is carrying other networks' traffic. The address count reflects infrastructure and customer allocations, while the value of the AS sits in the interconnections and the fibre underneath it.

The prefixes themselves are consistent with an Australian carrier that has grown by picking up allocations over time: a 180.222.192.0/22 alongside a scatter of /23s and /24s from APNIC's 103.0.0.0/8 range. Sampled reverse DNS shows a router interface named et0-0-41-341.fi02.syd02.nexthop.net.au — an Ethernet interface on a Sydney facility, exactly the naming a carrier uses for its own backbone gear — and a separate hostname belonging to an Australian business customer riding the same space.

Notable

• NextHop is a facilities-based operator: it builds and lights its own fibre rather than reselling.
• The high neighbour-to-address ratio is the clearest single signal here that this is wholesale transit, not access.

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

Announced prefixes

• 103.66.132.0/22
• 103.131.13.0/24
• 103.131.14.0/23
• 103.232.248.0/22
• 103.235.204.0/23
• 180.222.192.0/22
• 2405:e480::/46

Upstream networks

• AS7474 SingTel Optus Pty Ltd
• AS1221 Telstra Limited
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS64073 Vetta Group
• AS38001 NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
• AS132132 MyRepublic Ltd.
• AS4608 Asia Pacific Network Information Centre

Downstream networks

• AS7604 Zettagrid Pty Ltd
• AS45929 NextHop Pty Ltd
• AS45838 Anticlockwise Pty Ltd
• AS132789 Pivotel Group Pty Limited
• AS10214 Pentanet Limited
• AS133206 DGTEK PTY LTD
• AS55884 OrionVM Cloud Platform
• AS23838 Solarix Networks Limited
• AS55256 Netskope Inc
• AS56087 URL Networks
• AS38716 DC West Pty. Ltd.
• AS24305 EdgeIX Pty Ltd
• AS56035 RESEAU
• AS24541 HostAway Pty Ltd
• AS9790 Two Degrees Networks Limited
• AS23352 DEFT.COM
• AS45118 Australian Nursing Federation Industrial Union of Workers Perth
• AS149874 Multiwave Networks Pty Ltd
• AS142049 Launch Crew Pty Ltd
• AS55784 MARLINK AU-SYD
• AS58589 Cloud Earth Pty Ltd
• AS23731 Tibra Global Services
• AS38830 Levart Distribution Systems Pty Ltd
• AS56038 RackCorp
• AS63126 Aptient Consulting Group Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS7474 SingTel Optus Pty Ltd
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS7604 Zettagrid Pty Ltd
• AS9790 Two Degrees Networks Limited
• AS1221 Telstra Limited
• AS45929 NextHop Pty Ltd
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS4608 Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
• AS132789 Pivotel Group Pty Limited
• AS45838 Anticlockwise Pty Ltd
• AS23838 Solarix Networks Limited
• AS10214 Pentanet Limited
• AS133206 DGTEK PTY LTD
• AS55884 OrionVM Cloud Platform
• AS38716 DC West Pty. Ltd.
• AS24305 EdgeIX Pty Ltd
• AS38001 NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
• AS23352 DEFT.COM
• AS24541 HostAway Pty Ltd
• AS55256 Netskope Inc
• AS56087 URL Networks
• AS56035 RESEAU
• AS30081 CacheFly
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS132132 MyRepublic Ltd.

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 1 invalid and 14 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 73% of announcements registered; 32 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-HN-PROVIDERS, AS-HURRICANEV6, AS-KDDCUSTOMER2, AS-NEXTHOP-AU, AS-OPTUS, AS-RETN-ACTUAL-V4, AS-RETN-ACTUAL-V6, AS2764:AS-CUSTOMERS:AS7543, AS9507:AS-NEXTHOP.

Internet exchanges

• Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore — Singapore, Singapore
• BroadBand Internet eXchange Tokyo — Tokyo, Japan
• Coresite - Any2 West — Los Angeles, United States
• Any2 California — Los Angeles, United States
• Equinix Internet Exchange Sydney — Sydney, Australia
• Edge Internet Exchange - Sydney — Sydney, Australia
• Edge Internet Exchange - Perth — Perth, Australia
• Edge Internet Exchange - Melbourne — Melbourne, Australia
• Equinix Internet Exchange Melbourne — Melbourne, Australia
• Edge Internet Exchange - Brisbane — Brisbane, Australia