AS565

AS565 is a small, single-homed legacy autonomous system registered to VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd (Finnish: VTT Oy), the country's largest state-owned applied-research organization, headquartered in Espoo. The RIPE NCC-managed autnum record (WHOIS handle VTT-AS, co-registered under RIPE-NCC-LEGACY-MNT) shows a top-level registration event dated 2002-09-19 and a last-changed event of 2019-03-14; because RIPE NCC itself only began operating in 1992, this date most likely marks when the ASN's record was brought under RIPE stewardship rather than VTT's original 1980s-era number assignment, but it is the authoritative registry-record date and is recorded as such, not nulled. Routing data across RIPEstat and CAIDA agree the ASN is a minimal stub: it announces exactly one IPv4 prefix (130.188.0.0/16, roughly 65,536 addresses), no IPv6 space, has a single upstream provider relationship and zero peers or downstream customers. No PeeringDB record exists for the ASN, and no peering policy is published on VTT's own domains. Security screening against Spamhaus ASN-DROP and NANOG archives turned up no abuse history — only a benign 1997 CIDR-report mention of the announced blocks.

Operator

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd (Finnish: VTT Oy), Finnish state-owned applied-research organization, HQ P.O. Box 1000, FI-02044 VTT, Espoo, Finland [Confirmed] — https://www.vttresearch.com/en/about-us, https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/565

Country / RIR

FI; RIPE NCC-managed legacy record (RIPE-NCC-LEGACY-MNT co-registrant; IANA block 1-1876 shown as historically "Assigned by ARIN" per RIPEstat as-overview) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/565, https://stat.ripe.net/AS565

Allocated

2002-09-19 (RDAP autnum top-level "registration" event, eventDate 2002-09-19T15:18:07Z — the authoritative RIR registry date; given the RIPE-NCC-LEGACY-MNT co-registration and that RIPE NCC only began operating in 1992, this likely reflects when the legacy record entered RIPE stewardship rather than VTT's original number assignment, but is recorded as the registry fact, not nulled) [Confirmed]; last changed 2019-03-14

[Confirmed] — https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/565

Org status

active, wholly Finnish state-owned company under the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment [Confirmed] — https://www.vttresearch.com/en/about-us

Contacts

abuse@vtt.fi; HQ P.O. Box 1000, FI-02044 VTT, Finland [Confirmed] — https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/565, https://stat.ripe.net/AS565

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

not listed in the live Spamhaus ASN-DROP feed as of 2026-07-11 (421 entries checked, none for AS565); NANOG archive search found only a benign 1997 CIDR Report entry listing announced prefixes (130.188.2.0/24, .3.0/24, .9.0/24, .150.0/24, .250.0/24, .252.0/24), no abuse/hijack/route-leak history found [Confirmed for the Spamhaus check; Likely for overall absence of abuse] — https://www.spamhaus.org/drop/asndrop.json, https://seclists.org/nanog/1997/Feb/360

Network & routing

Network type

institutional/research-organization network; not a transit carrier, commercial ISP, or IXP participant [Likely] — https://db-ip.com/as565-vtt-technical-research-centre-of-finland-ltd, https://www.vttresearch.com/en/about-us

Size

1 announced IPv4 prefix (130.188.0.0/16, ~65,536 addresses), 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = singleton (itself), 1 prefix, 65,536 addresses [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS565, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/565

Routing/peering

1 provider relationship (CAIDA asnDegree.provider=1; RIPEstat observed_neighbours=1), 0 peers, 0 customers; likely upstream is the Finnish R&E network FUNET (AS565 appears in the RIPE AS-SET AS-FUNET) but the specific upstream ASN was not directly confirmed [Likely]; no PeeringDB record for AS565 (peeringdb.com/asn/565 returns 404) and no published peering policy found on vttresearch.com/vtt.fi

[Unknown] — https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/565, https://bgp.tools/as-set/AS-FUNET, https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/565

RPKI

not determined from this pull — RIPEstat's rpki-validation widget requires an explicit prefix parameter, which was not queried for this ASN-only fetch [Unknown] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS565

Notable usage

no public evidence of AS565 supporting commercial or transit traffic; VTT is Finland's largest applied-research organization (est. 1942, ~2,349 employees), active in carbon-neutral solutions, sustainable materials, and digital technologies, and operates the VTT MIKES national metrology/NTP time service — a specialized scientific use, not direct confirmation of AS565's routing role

[Likely] — https://www.vttresearch.com/en/about-us

Related ASNs

none confirmed as directly related; AS565 is a member of the RIPE AS-SET AS-FUNET alongside other Finnish research/education ASNs [Likely] — https://bgp.tools/as-set/AS-FUNET

Analyst note

small single-homed Finnish research-institute stub ASN with a clean abuse history; allocated_date reflects the RIPE registry record (legacy RIPE-NCC-LEGACY-MNT co-registration), not necessarily VTT's original 1980s-era number assignment.