AS102 — NSF-HQ-AS

AS102 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 66,048 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The headquarters network (NSF-HQ-AS) of the US National Science Foundation, the federal agency that funds science and engineering research.

What it's used for

• Operations and administrative networking for the National Science Foundation.

Notable

• A US government / research-agency network, not a commercial ISP or host. The low AS number marks it as an early-internet allocation.

Interesting

• The NSF funded and shaped NSFNET, the backbone that connected US research networks in the late 1980s and helped grow the early internet.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 128.150.0.0/16
• 192.12.209.0/24
• 198.181.231.0/24
• 2620:10f:6000::/40

Upstream networks

• AS6223 CenturyLink Communications, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS6223 CenturyLink Communications, LLC