AS702

AS702 is the actively routed EMEA regional backbone of Verizon Business, the former UUNET Tier-1 network, currently announcing 445 IPv4 and 21 IPv6 prefixes and ranked #198 globally by CAIDA — this is live core Internet infrastructure, not a dormant or legacy registration.

ARIN registers AS702 as part of the AS701–AS705 autnum block (handle AS701, name UUNET), with a first-party RIR registration (top-level RDAP event) dated 1990-08-03 and a last-changed event of 2022-05-31. Registrant status is active.

The ASN traces to UUNET's historical three-region NSP structure — AS701 for the US, AS702 for EMEA, AS703 for Asia-Pacific — built by UUNET Technologies and folded into MCI/WorldCom, then acquired by Verizon in 2006. AS702 today operates as Verizon Business's European/EMEA transit arm.

CAIDA lists AS702 as a Tier-1 clique member with a customer cone of 282 ASNs, 11,063 prefixes, and roughly 99.2 million addresses, and a total observed degree of 217 neighbors (169 customer, 47 peer, 1 provider). Verizon publishes a selective, settlement-free peering policy for the region requiring balanced traffic ratios, minimum backbone capacity, and geographic presence across at least half of its defined European footprint.

Prefix counts diverge by source: RIPEstat and bgp.tools independently agree at 445 IPv4 / 21 IPv6, while bgp.he.net reports a much larger 1,519 IPv4 / 103 IPv6 at the same query window. The lower, mutually corroborated figure is treated as current; the he.net figure is flagged as a likely snapshot or measurement-methodology outlier rather than reconciled.

Abuse-list status

Not present on the Spamhaus ASN-DROP list as of 2026-07-24; no material abuse signal found in a small CleanTalk subnet sample.

Routing hygiene flag

bgp.he.net flags AS702 as announcing bogons — a routing-hygiene/data-quality note typical of large legacy transit networks, not a malicious-abuse designation.

Lineage caution

A widely cited February 2016 Spamhaus report on Verizon routing hijacked address space names AS7046, not AS702 — do not attribute that incident to this ASN.

RPKI posture

Mixed and unreconciled — bgp.tools shows some originated prefixes with valid ROAs and others as IRR-only or mismatched; RIPEstat's validator is per-prefix only and yields no single aggregate figure.

Operator

Verizon Communications, Inc. (brand Verizon Business; UUNET/MCI/WorldCom lineage); AS702 is the EMEA region of Verizon's three-region NSP structure (AS701 US / AS702 EMEA / AS703 Asia-Pac) [Confirmed] — peeringdb.com/asn/702, bgp.he.net/AS702

Country / RIR

US-registrant (Ashburn, VA), ARIN; live routing footprint is EMEA/Europe [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/702

Allocated

1990-08-03 (ARIN RDAP top-level autnum registration event for the AS701–AS705 block); last changed 2022-05-31 [Confirmed — corroborated by direct RDAP fetch and independently by bgp.tools "registered August 3, 1990"] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/702, bgp.tools/as/702

Org status

active per ARIN RDAP (part of the AS701–AS705 UUNET block) [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/702

Contacts

abuse@verizon.com (ARIN abuse role); peering@verizonbusiness.com [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/702, verizon.com/business/terms/peering

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable current abuse signal as of 2026-07-24; absent from Spamhaus ASN-DROP; a 2016 hijack report frequently associated with this network family names AS7046, not AS702 [Confirmed] — spamhaus.org/drop/asndrop.txt, spamhaus.org/resource-hub/service-providers/verizon-routing-millions-of-ip-addresses-for-cybercrime-gangs

Network & routing

Network type

NSP / Tier-1 transit backbone, EMEA region [Confirmed] — peeringdb.com/asn/702

Size

445 IPv4 prefixes / 21 IPv6 prefixes (RIPEstat + bgp.tools consensus; bgp.he.net reports a higher 1,519/103 at the same window, flagged as an outlier) [Confirmed for the RIPEstat/bgp.tools figure; Likely for reconciling the discrepancy] — stat.ripe.net/AS702, bgp.tools/as/702, bgp.he.net/AS702

Routing/peering

CAIDA AS rank 198, Tier-1 clique member, customer cone 282 ASNs / 11,063 prefixes / ~99.2M addresses, total degree 217 (169 customer, 47 peer, 1 provider); upstreams include AS1299, AS174, AS701, AS3356, AS6453, AS12956 [Confirmed rank/cone/degree; Likely for the specific upstream list] — asrank.caida.org/asns/702, bgp.tools/as/702

Peering policy

selective settlement-free interconnection published by Verizon Business (traffic ratio ≤1.8:1, min. backbone capacity STM-16/2488 Mbps, min. 150 Mbps aggregate exchange, presence in ≥50% of the defined European region, 24/7 NOC) [Confirmed] — verizon.com/business/terms/peering

RPKI

mixed/partial — some originated prefixes carry valid ROAs, others IRR-only; no single aggregate percentage available (RIPEstat validator is per-prefix only) [Likely] — bgp.tools/as/702, stat.ripe.net/AS702

Geo footprint

primarily Europe/EMEA (Germany, Netherlands, UK, France, Spain, Denmark, Italy, Scandinavia cited); CAIDA geolocates the ASN near Rotterdam, distinct from the Ashburn, VA ARIN registrant address [Likely] — bgp.tools/as/702, asrank.caida.org/asns/702

Notable usage

EMEA arm of the former UUNET global Tier-1 backbone; acquired by MCI/WorldCom, later Verizon (2006); first seen in RIPE RIS routing 2000-08-18 and fully visible to all RIS peers today [Confirmed] — stat.ripe.net/AS702, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUNET

Related ASNs

AS701 (US sibling/parent block member), AS703 (Asia-Pacific sibling) [Confirmed] — bgp.he.net/AS702

Analyst note

A1's canonical-JSON fetch truncated before the autnum top-level events; the allocation date was corroborated via an untruncated re-fetch (A3) plus an independent bgp.tools citation, so it is recorded as Confirmed rather than nulled. One low-confidence WebSearch source (A5) suggested an unverified "0000-00-00" ARIN date; this is not corroborated by any direct RDAP read and is treated as noise, not a conflicting first-party source.