AS2856British Telecommunications
As of 26th September 2026, AS2856 (British Telecommunications), an access network registered in the United Kingdom with RIPE NCC, originates 538 IPv4 prefixes covering 18.5M addresses and 7 IPv6 prefixes. By IPv4 address space that makes it the 35th-largest of the 79,516 networks we see originating IPv4, and the 2nd-largest of 2,074 in the United Kingdom. It is seen behind 17 upstream networks, most often AS5400 (British Telecommunications…) and AS9002 (RETN Limited), and in front of 148 downstream networks. 71% of its announcements have a valid RPKI ROA, and none are RPKI-invalid. 99% of its routes reach at least 90% of full-feed peers, and 3 prefixes are also originated by another network.
At a glance
IPv4 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes
IPv4 addresses
IPv6 /64s
Upstream graph
The networks AS2856 is seen behind, one and two hops out, drawn from real AS paths.
Networks observed one and two hops upstream of AS2856 in real AS paths. A thicker line means more vantage points saw that adjacency, so weight tracks how well attested it is — not how much traffic it carries. Adjacency is an observation; whether it is a transit purchase or a settlement-free peering is an inference, and is labelled as one wherever we show it.
Neighbouring networks
408
adjacent networks
- Upstreams
- 174%
- Peers
- 24360%
- Downstreams
- 14836%
Networks carrying this one's traffic toward the rest of the internet.
| Network | Country | Relationship | Paths | Vantage pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS5400British Telecommunications (International) | Peer | 49,141 | 131 | |
| AS9002RETN Limited | Peer | 8,192 | 22 | |
| AS13030Init7 (Switzerland) Ltd. | Peer | 1,933 | 5 | |
| AS6667Elisa Oyj | Peer | 1,922 | 4 | |
| AS5413Wavenet Limited | Peer | 994 | 2 | |
| AS32590Valve Corporation | Peer | 971 | 2 | |
| AS39122Blacknight Internet Solutions Limited | Peer | 954 | 2 | |
| AS49544i3D.net B.V | Peer | 934 | 2 | |
| AS3170VeloxServ Communications Ltd | Peer | 918 | 2 | |
| AS41811CONVERGENCE (GROUP NETWORKS) LIMITED | Peer | 886 | 1 |
Prefixes
All 545The largest blocks AS2856 originates, widest first.
| Prefix | Addresses | Visibility |
|---|---|---|
| 86.128.0.0/10 | 4.2M | 80/81 |
| 81.128.0.0/11 | 2.1M | 80/81 |
| 86.128.0.0/11 | 2.1M | 80/81 |
| 81.128.0.0/12 | 1M | 80/81 |
| 86.128.0.0/12 | 1M | 80/81 |
| 109.144.0.0/12 | 1M | 80/81 |
| 217.32.0.0/12 | 1M | 80/81 |
| 31.48.0.0/13 | 524k | 80/81 |
| 95.144.0.0/13 | 524k | 80/81 |
| 31.100.0.0/14 | 262k | 81/81 |
Routing health
How AS2856's own announcements validate against RPKI and how far they propagate. The same measures for the whole routing table are on the routing table in numbers.
RPKI origin validation
- Valid71.2%388
- Invalid0.0%0
- No ROA28.8%157
Propagation
- Globally propagated90% of full-feed peers or more98.7%538
- Partially propagated40% to 90%1.3%7
- Seen by few peersUnder 40%0.0%0
Prefix sizes
IPv4 — 538 prefixes
- /104.2M addresses0.2%1
- /112.1M addresses0.4%2
- /121M addresses0.7%4
- /13524k addresses0.4%2
- /14262k addresses1.1%6
- /15131k addresses1.5%8
- /1665.5k addresses5.0%27
- /1732.8k addresses0.2%1
- /1816.4k addresses0.6%3
- /198.2k addresses1.7%9
- /204.1k addresses3.3%18
- /212k addresses2.4%13
- /221k addresses14.9%80
- /23512 addresses10.0%54
- /24256 addresses57.6%310
IPv6 — 7 prefixes
- /25550B × /6414.3%1
- /2934.4B × /6414.3%1
- /47131k × /6414.3%1
- /4865.5k × /6457.1%4
Recent changes
Announcements that started or stopped since 28th Aug 2026.
- Announced87.81.112.0/2024th Sept 2026
- Announced144.87.0.0/2022nd Sept 2026
- Announced144.87.128.0/1722nd Sept 2026
- Announced188.220.122.0/2422nd Sept 2026
- Announced188.220.151.0/2422nd Sept 2026
- Announced188.220.157.0/2422nd Sept 2026
- Announced188.220.167.0/2422nd Sept 2026
- Announced188.220.194.0/2422nd Sept 2026
- Announced188.220.212.0/2422nd Sept 2026
- Announced188.220.229.0/2422nd Sept 2026
- Announced188.221.168.0/2422nd Sept 2026
- Announced188.221.177.0/2422nd Sept 2026
46 announced and 2 withdrawn in all; the most recent are shown.
Routing data derived from RouteViews MRT archives, BGPKIT relationship inference and public registry data.