AS845

AS845 is an actively routed autonomous system registered to SBA Connect, LLC and operated as part of SBA Edge, the edge-computing and tower-colocation division of SBA Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: SBAC); it announces a small, stable footprint of four IPv4 prefixes and one IPv6 prefix rather than serving retail or wholesale internet customers.

ARIN allocated the ASN on 2022-06-16, and the record has not been modified since. Rather than a public transit ISP, AS845 functions as an internal facility network for SBA Edge's colocation and tower-edge data centers — sites disclosed in West Chicago, Illinois; Jacksonville, Florida; and São Paulo, Brazil — connecting SBA Edge's own infrastructure and carriers that interconnect through its Meet-Me Rooms.

The ASN takes transit from four upstream-looking providers: GTT (AS3257), Level 3/Lumen (AS3356), Zayo Bandwidth (AS6461), and AS46887, whose operating name is disputed between two BGP-data sources. CAIDA's customer cone shows a singleton — AS845 has no downstream customer ASNs of its own, consistent with a facility-support role rather than a wholesale network.

RPKI coverage is partial: two of the four announced IPv4 prefixes carry a valid ROA and none are invalid, per agreement between two BGP-monitoring sources. No public peering policy or PeeringDB record exists for AS845, and its geographic footprint is US-only, centered on Boca Raton and Jacksonville, Florida.

AS845 briefly announced 198.205.114.0/24 — normally routed by AS19844 (SBA Edge, LLC), a same-corporate-family affiliate — for a single day in March 2026, a pattern consistent with routine inter-affiliate routing rather than a hijack, though no operator confirmation was found.

Operator

SBA Connect, LLC (ARIN org SCL-529; RDAP name SBA-CONNECT); public-facing operating brand is SBA Edge (sbaedge.com), a subsidiary of SBA Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: SBAC). The SBA Connect–SBA Edge link is inferred from converging evidence (matching contact-email domain, a shared Jacksonville FL facility, and the operator's Terms of Use naming "SBA Communications Corporation and its affiliates") rather than a single direct statement

[Likely] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/845, rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/SCL-529, sbaedge.com/terms-of-use

Country / RIR

US, ARIN [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/845

Allocated

2022-06-16 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event; "last changed" carries the same timestamp, meaning the autnum record itself has not been modified since creation); independently corroborated by bgp.tools ("Registered on 16 Jun 2022")

[Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/845, bgp.tools/as/845

Org status

active — ARIN RDAP autnum status "Active"; registrant SBA Connect, LLC (org SCL-529) itself registered with ARIN 2022-05-23, address 8051 Congress Avenue, Boca Raton, FL 33487. Operates as a subsidiary/affiliate of SBA Communications Corporation, described on the operator's own site as a publicly traded (NASDAQ: SBAC) S&P 500 member

[Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/845, rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/SCL-529, sbaedge.com/about

Contacts

abuse contact dmca@fairwayisp.com (ARIN group entity ABUSE9043-ARIN, "AbuseNOC"; flagged by ARIN as an unvalidated POC since 2025-06-10); registrant address 8051 Congress Avenue, Boca Raton, FL 33487. Two other ARIN POCs on the autnum record are individual, not group, contacts and are deliberately withheld from this entry

[Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/ABUSE9043-ARIN, rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/845

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of an August 2026 search — clean on Spamhaus SBL and CleanTalk (0.00% spam rate); NANOG's MARC archive returns an explicit no-hits result. AbuseIPDB, Talos, and the Spamhaus ASN-lookup tool returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch and remain open coverage gaps, not confirmed-clean [Confirmed for the reachable feeds; gap flagged for the rest] — cleantalk.org/blacklists/as845, spamhaus.org/blocklists/spamhaus-blocklist, marc.info/?l=nanog&s=AS845&f=1

Network & routing

Network type

not a retail/wholesale transit ISP — SBA Edge is an edge-computing, colocation, and tower-infrastructure provider operating data centers at tower sites (disclosed: West Chicago IL, Jacksonville FL, São Paulo, Brazil), with cage/rack colocation and Meet-Me Room carrier interconnection

[Confirmed] — sbaedge.com/about, sbaedge.com/colocation, sbaedge.com/tower-edge, bgp.he.net/AS845

Size

4 IPv4 prefixes + 1 IPv6 prefix announced; ~1,024 IPv4 addresses by direct BGP read (bgp.he.net), though CAIDA's customer-cone metric reads 1,280 addresses across all 5 prefixes combined — the discrepancy was not reconciled to individual prefix lengths

[Likely] — bgp.he.net/AS845, bgp.tools/as/845, asrank.caida.org/asns/845

Routing/peering

CAIDA AS Rank 31459; customer cone = singleton (1 ASN, 5 prefixes, 1,280 addresses, no downstream customer ASNs). Upstreams per BGP-data agreement: AS3257 (GTT), AS3356 (Level 3/Lumen), AS6461 (Zayo Bandwidth), and AS46887 (org name disputed — "Crown Castle Fiber LLC" per bgp.he.net vs. "Zayo Bandwidth" per bgp.tools for the identical ASN number). bgp.tools additionally lists AS6461, AS271253, and AS8928 among 6 peer-category ASNs — AS6461's appearance in both the upstream and peer lists was not independently reconciled. No PeeringDB network record (404 on peeringdb.com/asn/845) and no public peering-policy page found

[Likely] — bgp.he.net/AS845, bgp.tools/as/845, asrank.caida.org/asns/845, peeringdb.com/asn/845

RPKI

partial coverage — 2 of 4 announced IPv4 prefixes carry a valid ROA, 0 invalid, per independent agreement between bgp.he.net and bgp.tools; the remaining IPv4 prefix and the IPv6 prefix were not individually confirmed [Likely] — bgp.he.net/AS845, bgp.tools/as/845

Notable usage

best read as an internal/facility-support network for SBA Edge's colocation and tower-edge business rather than a network sold to retail or wholesale customers — inferred from the operator's own service descriptions plus a transit-only, no-downstream-customer BGP pattern; SBA Edge's site never names "AS845" directly

[Likely] — sbaedge.com/colocation, sbaedge.com/tower-edge, bgp.he.net/AS845

Related ASNs

AS19844 (SBA Edge, LLC) — a same-corporate-family affiliate whose normal block, 198.205.114.0/24, was briefly announced by AS845 for a single day (2026-03-25); read as a plausible inter-affiliate routing event, not operator-confirmed

[Likely] — stat.ripe.net/data/announced-prefixes (resource=845), stat.ripe.net/data/prefix-overview (resource=198.205.114.0/24)

Analyst note

AS845 is a small, actively routed, US-only network held by SBA Connect, LLC and operated as part of SBA Edge's tower-colocation business, not a public transit ISP. Two items are open rather than guessed at: which org actually holds AS46887 (bgp.he.net and bgp.tools disagree), and whether "SBA Edge" and the fairwayisp.com contact domain both denote operating brands of SBA Connect, LLC — plausible from converging circumstantial evidence but not stated directly by any single source. Community corroboration (NANOG/Reddit mentions, third-party reputation discussion) is Unknown as of an August 2026 review — an open gap, not an answered negative

[Likely] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/845, bgp.he.net/AS845, bgp.tools/as/845