AS810

AS810 is a Government of Canada autonomous system registered to Shared Services Canada (SSC) that currently announces zero prefixes in the global BGP table — it is registry-valid and active per ARIN RDAP, but it is not a live transit, hosting, or content network today.

SSC is the federal department that runs the Government of Canada's consolidated IT and network backbone: it provides the wide-area network and hosting services connecting more than 400,000 GC employees, including defence and law-enforcement users, across roughly 4,000 domestic sites and 200 international locations. SSC was established in 2011 under the Shared Services Canada Act and works with the Communications Security Establishment and Treasury Board Secretariat on government network defence.

Every routing source checked — RIPEstat, CAIDA AS Rank, bgp.he.net, and bgp.tools — agrees AS810 originates 0 IPv4 and 0 IPv6 prefixes, has 0 visible BGP peers, and shows an empty customer cone (1 ASN, 0 prefixes, 0 addresses). Its CAIDA rank of 79,459 reflects that total routing silence. No PeeringDB network object exists for the ASN, consistent with an internal government WAN rather than a network that maintains a public peering policy. RPKI status cannot be assessed because no prefixes are announced, so there are no ROAs to validate.

ARIN's RDAP autnum record carries a top-level registration date of 1992-08-19, decades before SSC's 2011 founding — this is the ASN's original registry allocation date, not SSC's own founding date, and no claim is made here about who held AS810 before SSC became its registrant. The record's last-changed timestamp is 2025-11-07.

Operator

Shared Services Canada (French: Services partagés Canada), a Government of Canada department/agency; ARIN org handle SSC-299, autnum name SSCWEST [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum (registrant address 434 Queen Street, Ottawa, ON)

Allocated

1992-08-19 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event, first-party RIR fact — predates SSC's 2011 founding, so the pre-2011 registrant chain is Unknown); last changed 2025-11-07 [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum top-level events

Org status

active Government of Canada department, established 2011 under the Shared Services Canada Act, with authorities further defined by Order in Council 2015-1071 and 2016-0003; ARIN RDAP status "active"

[Confirmed] — canada.ca/en/shared-services/corporate/about-us/mandate.html, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Services_Canada

Contacts

the organisational mailbox on the SSC "Hostmaster" role record (ARIN handle HOSTM227-ARIN) is ssc.enterpriseddi-entreprise.spc@ssc-spc.gc.ca; registrant address 434 Queen Street, PO Box 9808 STN T CSC, Ottawa, ON K1G 4A8, Canada. Three further addresses returned for this resource belong to named individuals — their POC vCards declare kind: "individual" — and are withheld here

[Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/810, RIPEstat abuse-contact-finder

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

not present in Spamhaus ASN-DROP as of 2026-08-01; ipinfo.io labels ASN type "Inactive"; Talos Intelligence reputation lookup returned HTTP 403 and NANOG archive search is CAPTCHA-gated, so coverage beyond Spamhaus/HE/ipinfo is incomplete

Network & routing

Network type

government/enterprise WAN operator, not a commercial ISP or transit network; SSC runs the consolidated Government of Canada IT backbone connecting 400,000+ employees across ~4,000 domestic and 200 international sites [Confirmed] — canada.ca/en/shared-services (about-us / what-we-do)

Size

unrouted — 0 IPv4 prefixes / 0 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 0 prefixes, 0 addresses; CAIDA AS rank 79,459 [Confirmed] — RIPEstat / CAIDA AS Rank / bgp.he.net / bgp.tools (2026-08-01)

Routing/peering

NOT announced — 0 RIS peers seeing it (0/328 v4, 0/322 v6); CAIDA degree total 0 (customer 0, peer 0, provider 0); no PeeringDB network object exists for AS810 (404 on both API and profile page), consistent with an internal government network rather than a publicly peering one [Confirmed]

RPKI

not assessable — AS810 announces no prefixes, so there are no ROAs to validate; bgp.he.net shows 0 RPKI-invalid origins [Confirmed]

Notable usage

SSC's Government of Canada WAN carries frontline and mission-critical operations — border services, national defence, emergency response, tax filing, employment insurance, census, and scientific/environmental data — for 90+ federal departments and 145+ federal organizations

[Confirmed] — canada.ca/en/shared-services/corporate/about-us/what-we-do.html

Related ASNs

AS806 and AS811 — both registered under the same ARIN org handle SSC-299 and sharing CAIDA orgId 3d1ce0b48f with AS810 [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/810 (org handle SSC-299), asrank.caida.org/asns/810 (orgId 3d1ce0b48f)

Analyst note

A dormant-looking ASN that is actually a registry-valid Government of Canada department holding, not a defunct commercial network — SSC's public-facing WAN likely routes under other ASNs or purely internally. Original ARIN registration (1992) long predates SSC's 2011 founding, so treat the allocation date as the registry record's history, not SSC's operational start date.