AS887

AS887 is a currently-unrouted ASN, named "SBH-IX-ROUTE-SERVERS," registered to the Collectivité de Saint-Barthélemy (the local government of the French overseas collectivity) that functions as the route-server ASN for SBH-IX, the Saint-Barth Internet Exchange, and originates zero IPv4 or IPv6 prefixes as of an August 2026 check.

The ASN was allocated by ARIN on 2022-06-07 (RDAP autnum top-level registration event, last changed 2022-06-09), around the same time SBH-IX itself launched on 2022-06-30 in Gustavia as part of the EU INTERREG Caraïbes-funded CaribIX project, alongside sister exchanges in Saint Martin and Guadeloupe.

Every routing source checked agrees AS887 carries no live traffic: RIPEstat shows zero announced IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes and zero RIS peer visibility (0/327 v4, 0/321 v6); CAIDA AS Rank places it at 79,459 with an all-zero AS degree (0 customers, 0 peers, 0 providers) and a singleton customer cone; bgp.tools independently corroborates zero peers and zero upstreams. This is consistent with a route-server ASN that reflects routes among the exchange's members rather than originating its own space into the default-free zone — PeeringDB separately lists SBH-IX (IX id 3872) as having 11 connected member ASNs, so the exchange itself has participants even though AS887's own route-server prefixes/peers are not visible in these sources.

PeeringDB lists the associated net record's peering policy as Open, with no location or contract requirements; per SBH-IX's own about page, members may either set up bilateral peering directly or announce routes to the AS887 route servers to peer multilaterally, under an IXP Memorandum of Understanding. The exchange describes itself as intended to become an independent nonprofit association of ISPs, but as of the page consulted, facilities are still managed by the Collectivité and ownership transfers to the association only upon its formal legal establishment — which had not yet occurred.

Operator

Collectivité de Saint-Barthélemy (local government of the French overseas collectivity; ARIN org handle CSB-254), operating the ASN on behalf of SBH-IX (Saint-Barth Internet Exchange) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/887

Country / RIR

FR (Saint-Barthélemy), ARIN [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/abuse-contact-finder/data.json?resource=AS887, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/887

Allocated

2022-06-07 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event, 2022-06-07T12:13:44-04:00; last changed 2022-06-09T11:42:23-04:00) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/887

Org status

SBH-IX facilities are currently managed by the Collectivité de Saint-Barthélemy; the exchange intends to become an independent nonprofit association of ISPs, with ownership transferring only upon formal legal establishment, which had not yet occurred as of the page consulted

[Likely] — https://sbh-ix.eservices-comstbarth.fr/index-en.html

Contacts

contact@sbh-ix.fr (ARIN handle SBH-IX1); technique.info@comstbarth.fr (Collectivité IT department); registered address Saint-Barthélemy, France, 97133 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/887

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of an August 2026 search — not in Spamhaus ASN-DROP (endpoint 404, inconclusive), CleanTalk-style feeds, NANOG archives, or networking-community forums; consistent with a currently unrouted ASN

Network & routing

Network type

Internet Exchange Point route-server ASN (SBH-IX), not an access/transit network; PeeringDB info_type "Route Server" [Confirmed] — https://www.peeringdb.com/api/net?asn=887

Size

unrouted — 0 IPv4 prefixes / 0 IPv4 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 0 prefixes, 0 addresses; CAIDA AS rank 79,459 [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/announced-prefixes/data.json?resource=AS887, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/887

Routing/peering

NOT announced — 0/327 RIS peers seeing v4, 0/321 seeing v6; CAIDA AS degree total 0 (customer 0, peer 0, provider 0); corroborated independently by bgp.tools (0 peers, 0 upstreams) [Confirmed]. PeeringDB peering policy is Open, locations/contracts not required

[Confirmed] — https://bgp.tools/as/887, https://www.peeringdb.com/api/net?asn=887

RPKI

not assessable — AS887 announces no prefixes, so there are no ROAs to validate [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/rpki-validation/data.json?resource=AS887

Notable usage

SBH-IX publicly launched 2022-06-30 in Gustavia under the EU INTERREG Caraïbes CaribIX project, alongside sister exchanges in Saint Martin and Guadeloupe; a CTU press release (third-party, unnamed spokesperson) describes the exchange enabling local CDN presence and preserving local access during submarine-cable disruptions

[Likely] — https://ctu.int/st-barth-internet-exchange-launched-under-caribix-project%EF%BF%BC/

Related ASNs

AS886 (SBH-IX-SERVICES), a companion ASN for the same exchange [Likely] — https://bgp.tools/as/887

Analyst note

Encountered as an unrouted, purpose-built route-server ASN for a small Caribbean IXP whose ARIN registrant is the territorial government itself rather than a private ISP; all routing sources agree on zero announcements, zero peers, and a singleton customer cone. No MAC/OUI or IEEE claims apply to this record.