AS886

AS886 is an active ARIN-region ASN, allocated 2022-06-07 and registered to the Collectivité de Saint-Barthélemy, that operates as the infrastructure ASN for SBH-IX, the Saint-Barth Internet Exchange. It is a small but live network: it announces exactly one IPv4 /24 and one IPv6 /36, both covered by valid RPKI ROAs, with no dormancy indicators.

SBH-IX launched on 2022-06-30 as part of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union's regional CaribIX initiative, alongside sister exchanges such as Saint Martin's SMART-IX. As of a May 2026 figure reported by CTU, SBH-IX carried 120 Gbps of cumulative member port speed with 11 ASNs listed in PeeringDB. Notably, AS886 itself does not appear on SBH-IX's own published member list — a separate ASN, AS396950 (also registered to the Collectivité), is listed there as a participant — which points to AS886 functioning as the exchange's own operational ASN rather than a customer-facing ISP number.

Routing sources place AS886's two BGP links (AS21351, Canal+ Telecom SAS, and AS396950, Collectivité de Saint-Barthélemy) as upstream/provider relationships per CAIDA and bgp.tools, though bgp.he.net labels the same two ASNs as peers — a source conflict that is not resolved here. BGP visibility is broad and mature (325/327 IPv4 and 319/321 IPv6 RIS peers), and CAIDA's customer cone is a singleton limited to AS886 itself. CAIDA's ASN geolocation places AS886 near Lyon, France, which conflicts with the RIR-registered Gustavia, Saint-Barthélemy address; this is flagged as an unresolved discrepancy rather than treated as the physical site.

A secondary ambiguity concerns the operator's canonical website: ARIN and PeeringDB list http://sbh-ix.fr, while a separately reachable bilingual site was found at sbh-ix.eservices-comstbarth.fr. Whether these are the same property under two hostnames, or two distinct sites, was not independently confirmed. Per the operator's own English page, SBH-IX is currently installed and temporarily managed by the Collectivité pending its formal establishment as an independent legal association.

Operator

Collectivité de Saint-Barthélemy (territorial government of Saint-Barthélemy, France); registered network name SBH-IX-SERVICES [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum 886, PeeringDB net 30135

Country / RIR

Saint-Barthélemy (French Caribbean overseas collectivity), ARIN [Confirmed for RIR/address; Likely for ISO code BL] — ARIN RDAP autnum 886

Allocated

2022-06-07 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event); last changed 2022-06-09 [Confirmed, corroborated independently by three angles] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/886

Org status

active per ARIN RDAP status field; SBH-IX is currently installed and temporarily managed by the Collectivité de Saint-Barthélemy pending its formal establishment as an independent legal association [Confirmed for RDAP status; Likely for the interim-management detail] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/886, sbh-ix.eservices-comstbarth.fr/index-en.html

Contacts

ARIN RDAP contact entity SBHIX1-ARIN (roles: noc, abuse, technical; vCard kind=group), mailbox contact@sbh-ix.fr; Collectivité POCs ADMIN6796-ARIN (administrative), TECHP53-ARIN (technical) and ABUSE7168-ARIN (abuse), all vCard kind=group, mailbox technique.info@comstbarth.fr; registrant address Hôtel de la Collectivité, Gustavia, Saint-Barthélemy

[Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/886

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse, NANOG-archive, or BGP-incident signal found for AS886 as of an August 2026 search

Network & routing

Network type

Internet exchange point (IXP) infrastructure ASN operated for SBH-IX (Saint-Barth Internet Exchange), part of the CTU's CaribIX regional project; AS886 itself is not listed among SBH-IX's own member ASNs

[Likely] — peeringdb.com/net/30135, sbh-ix.eservices-comstbarth.fr/members.html, ctu.int CaribIX announcement

Size

1 IPv4 prefix (23.136.248.0/24, 256 addresses) and 1 IPv6 prefix (2602:fb62::/36); CAIDA customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 1 prefix, 256 addresses; CAIDA AS rank 61201 [Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status/announced-prefixes, CAIDA ASRank API (2026-08-10 fetch), bgp.he.net, bgp.tools

Routing/peering

2 BGP links, both classified as provider/upstream by CAIDA and bgp.tools (AS21351 Canal+ Telecom SAS; AS396950 Collectivité de Saint-Barthélemy); bgp.he.net conflicts and labels the same two as peers [Confirmed links, Unknown directionality]. BGP visibility 325/327 IPv4 and 319/321 IPv6 RIS peers as of 2026-08-10 [Confirmed]. Peering policy Open per PeeringDB [Confirmed]

RPKI

valid ROAs for both announced prefixes — 23.136.248.0/24 (max_length 24) and 2602:fb62::/36 (max_length 36), origin AS886, validator routinator, full 2-of-2 coverage [Confirmed] — stat.ripe.net rpki-validation data for AS886

Notable usage

operational ASN for SBH-IX, launched 2022-06-30 under the CTU's CaribIX project; SBH-IX reported 120 Gbps cumulative member port speed and 11 ASNs in PeeringDB as of a May 2026 CTU figure [Likely] — ctu.int, pch.net/ixp/details/2306

Related ASNs

AS396950 (Collectivité de Saint-Barthélemy; both an AS886 upstream and a separately listed SBH-IX member ASN); AS21351 (Canal+ Telecom SAS; AS886 upstream) [Confirmed] — CAIDA ASRank, bgp.tools, sbh-ix.eservices-comstbarth.fr/members.html

Analyst note

AS886 functions as SBH-IX's own operational ASN rather than a conventional customer-facing ISP number — it is absent from the exchange's published member list, where a different ASN (AS396950) represents the Collectivité as a member instead. Two unresolved discrepancies: (1) the operator's canonical website may be sbh-ix.fr or sbh-ix.eservices-comstbarth.fr, relationship unconfirmed; (2) CAIDA's geolocation (near Lyon, France) does not match the RIR-registered Saint-Barthélemy address. No MAC/OUI or IANA RFC claims apply to this ASN research.