AS10430 — WA-K20

Network type: education

AS10430 announces 92 IPv4 prefixes covering 539,136 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

WA-K20 is the Washington State K-20 Telecommunications Network, a state-funded education backbone launched in 1996 that connects K-12 school districts, community and technical colleges, public universities and libraries across Washington.

What it's used for

• Aggregating and carrying Internet and inter-campus traffic for the state's whole education sector — "K-20" meaning kindergarten through post-graduate.
• Providing a shared, subsidised path to the commodity Internet (via the Pacific Northwest GigaPOP) so individual districts and colleges don't each have to buy their own transit.

Notable

• Education, and structurally a small R&E backbone rather than an end-site. RIS sees 69 IPv4 prefixes carrying roughly 587,264 addresses plus one IPv6 /32 (2607:fa78::/32), with 27 observed BGP neighbours.
• Read those numbers together. Twenty-seven neighbours is far too few for a commercial carrier, which would peer with hundreds — but it is far more than the two or three a single campus keeps. That middle band is characteristic of a regional aggregator: it has downstream members as well as upstreams.
• The prefix list is the other tell. 164.116.0.0/16, 134.39.0.0/16, 168.99.0.0/16 and 168.212.0.0/16 are legacy institutional Class Bs, sitting alongside a long tail of /17s and /19s. That mix is what accumulates when separately-allocated member institutions are gathered under one origin AS over three decades — not what a single organisation is assigned in one go.

Interesting

• Networks like this exist because bulk-buying transit for an entire state's schools is dramatically cheaper than each district negotiating alone.

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

Announced prefixes

• 63.135.32.0/20
• 66.96.64.0/20
• 68.179.192.0/19
• 69.56.64.0/23
• 69.56.67.0/24
• 69.56.68.0/22
• 69.56.72.0/21
• 69.56.80.0/20
• 69.56.112.0/20
• 134.39.0.0/16
• 152.157.0.0/19
• 152.157.48.0/20
• 152.157.80.0/20
• 152.157.96.0/19
• 152.157.128.0/17
• 164.116.0.0/23
• 164.116.4.0/22
• 164.116.8.0/21
• 164.116.16.0/22
• 164.116.20.0/23
• 164.116.32.0/20
• 164.116.50.0/23
• 164.116.52.0/22
• 164.116.56.0/21
• 164.116.64.0/19
• 164.116.96.0/21
• 164.116.104.0/22
• 164.116.108.0/23
• 164.116.110.0/24
• 164.116.112.0/20
• 164.116.128.0/18
• 164.116.254.0/24
• 168.99.0.0/19
• 168.99.60.0/22
• 168.99.64.0/18
• 168.99.128.0/18
• 168.156.0.0/18
• 168.156.64.0/20
• 168.156.128.0/17
• 168.212.0.0/16
• 169.204.0.0/18
• 169.204.64.0/20
• 169.204.80.0/21
• 169.204.88.0/23
• 169.204.91.0/24
• 169.204.92.0/22
• 169.204.96.0/19
• 169.204.128.0/17
• 173.229.32.0/19
• 192.56.246.0/23
• 192.56.248.0/21
• 192.64.1.0/24
• 192.102.5.0/24
• 192.206.201.0/24
• 192.207.104.0/24
• 192.211.16.0/20
• 192.247.128.0/17
• 199.245.238.0/24
• 206.193.0.0/21
• 206.193.9.0/24
• 206.193.10.0/23
• 206.193.12.0/22
• 206.193.16.0/20
• 206.193.32.0/19
• 207.180.96.0/19
• 216.186.0.0/20
• 216.186.16.0/23
• 216.186.18.0/24
• 216.186.20.0/22
• 216.186.24.0/24
• 216.186.26.0/23
• 216.186.28.0/22
• 216.186.32.0/20
• 216.186.48.0/23
• 216.186.50.0/24
• 216.186.56.0/22
• 216.186.60.0/23
• 216.186.67.0/24
• 216.186.68.0/22
• 216.186.72.0/21
• 216.186.80.0/20
• 216.186.99.0/24
• 216.186.100.0/22
• 216.186.104.0/21
• 216.186.112.0/20
• 216.210.0.0/24
• 216.210.2.0/23
• 216.210.4.0/22
• 216.210.12.0/22
• 216.210.16.0/22
• 216.210.24.0/21
• 216.210.32.0/19
• 2607:fa78::/32

Upstream networks

• AS101 University of Washington
• AS30198 Kent School District

Downstream networks

• AS54032 Seattle Pacific University
• AS54027 Seattle Public Schools
• AS30198 Kent School District
• AS10506 Evergreen Public Schools
• AS11827 Washington State University
• AS55268 Edmonds School District #15
• AS46457 ESD 112
• AS399102 Washington State School for the Blind
• AS394391 Central Washington University
• AS62894 Puyallup School District
• AS31766 University of Puget Sound
• AS33427 Washington State University
• AS395962 Washington State University
• AS393564 Washington State University
• AS15199 Western Washington University
• AS395633 Washington State University
• AS3935 Eastern Washington University
• AS394640 Tahoma School District No. 409
• AS54436 Highline School District
• AS15323 Bellevue School District #405
• AS401367 TPS-ASN
• AS11863 Pacific Lutheran University
• AS16679 BETHEL SCHOOL DISTRICT 403
• AS27183 Northshore School District
• AS30075 Lake Washington School District #414

Adjacent networks

• AS101 University of Washington
• AS54032 Seattle Pacific University
• AS54027 Seattle Public Schools
• AS30198 Kent School District
• AS10506 Evergreen Public Schools
• AS11827 Washington State University
• AS55268 Edmonds School District #15
• AS46457 ESD 112
• AS399102 Washington State School for the Blind
• AS394391 Central Washington University
• AS62894 Puyallup School District
• AS31766 University of Puget Sound
• AS33427 Washington State University
• AS395962 Washington State University
• AS393564 Washington State University
• AS15199 Western Washington University
• AS395633 Washington State University
• AS3935 Eastern Washington University
• AS394640 Tahoma School District No. 409
• AS54436 Highline School District
• AS15323 Bellevue School District #405
• AS401367 TPS-ASN
• AS11863 Pacific Lutheran University
• AS16679 BETHEL SCHOOL DISTRICT 403
• AS27183 Northshore School District