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
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS64073 Vetta Group
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS4608 Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.

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
• AS139077 FREEDOM INTERNET HOLDINGS PTY LTD
• AS23838 Solarix Networks Limited
• AS55884 OrionVM Cloud Platform
• AS38716 DC West Pty. Ltd.
• AS56087 URL Networks
• AS55256 Netskope Inc
• AS24305 EdgeIX Pty Ltd
• AS56035 RESEAU
• AS24541 HostAway Pty Ltd
• AS9790 Two Degrees Networks Limited
• AS149874 Multiwave Networks Pty Ltd
• AS45118 Australian Nursing Federation Industrial Union of Workers Perth
• AS142049 Launch Crew Pty Ltd
• AS23731 Tibra Global Services
• AS58589 Cloud Earth Pty Ltd
• AS56038 RackCorp
• AS23352 DEFT.COM
• AS55784 MARLINK AU-SYD
• AS38830 Levart Distribution Systems Pty Ltd

Adjacent networks

• AS7474 SingTel Optus Pty Ltd
• AS7604 Zettagrid Pty Ltd
• AS1221 Telstra Limited
• AS9790 Two Degrees Networks Limited
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS45929 NextHop Pty Ltd
• AS4608 Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
• AS45838 Anticlockwise Pty Ltd
• AS132789 Pivotel Group Pty Limited
• AS10214 Pentanet Limited
• AS23838 Solarix Networks Limited
• AS133206 DGTEK PTY LTD
• AS139077 FREEDOM INTERNET HOLDINGS PTY LTD
• AS38716 DC West Pty. Ltd.
• AS24305 EdgeIX Pty Ltd
• AS55884 OrionVM Cloud Platform
• AS56087 URL Networks
• AS55256 Netskope Inc
• AS24541 HostAway Pty Ltd
• AS23352 DEFT.COM
• AS56035 RESEAU
• AS30081 CacheFly
• AS56038 RackCorp
• AS138657 MarchNet
• AS149874 Multiwave Networks Pty Ltd

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