AS10886 — MAX-GIGAPOP

Network type: education

AS10886 announces 7 IPv4 prefixes covering 10,240 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

MAX-GIGAPOP is Mid-Atlantic Crossroads, the regional research and education network operated out of the University of Maryland. A "GigaPoP" is a shared high-capacity aggregation point, and that is exactly what this AS is.

What it's used for

Regional academic interconnection, not campus access. RIS shows 10 announced IPv4 prefixes with 10,240 addresses, 4 announced IPv6 prefixes, and 30 observed neighbours.

Thirty neighbours against ten thousand addresses is the whole story. Networks that small are normally single-homed edges; a network that peers with dozens of ASes while holding almost no address space is an aggregator, carrying other people's traffic between member institutions, national backbones such as Internet2, and commercial peers. The address space is infrastructure, not user pools.

The reverse DNS backs this up precisely. Sampled names include penn-state-re-demarc.maxgigapop.net, literally the demarcation point handed to a member university, umcp-atm.umd.edu on the Maryland campus side, and dia.static.tfhrc2.gov, a federal highway research facility. Universities and government research labs, connected through a shared exchange, is the definition of a GigaPoP.

Notable

The prefix list is a patchwork drawn from several different providers' space (65.113, 63.239, 38.124, 209.201), which is what happens when a regional exchange absorbs connections and address assignments from many upstreams over three decades.

Interesting

Among the announcements are 199.7.91.0/24 and 2001:500:2d::/48. Those blocks are home to d.root-servers.net, one of the thirteen DNS root servers, which the University of Maryland has operated since the earliest days of the root server system. A network of ten thousand addresses is quietly carrying a piece of the internet's naming foundation.

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

Announced prefixes

• 38.124.249.0/24
• 63.239.135.0/24
• 65.113.61.0/24
• 65.127.220.0/23
• 199.7.91.0/24
• 206.196.160.0/19
• 209.201.74.0/23
• 2001:468:c00::/41
• 2001:500:2d::/48

Upstream networks

• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS42 WoodyNet, Inc.
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS11537 Internet2
• AS11164 Internet2
• AS293 ESnet

Downstream networks

• AS1848 National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• AS27026 networkMaryland
• AS27 University of Maryland
• AS70 National Library of Medicine
• AS3527 National Institutes of Health
• AS393689 National Library of Medicine
• AS25807 Arlington County Government
• AS6059 University System of Maryland
• AS4 University of Southern California
• AS268 Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
• AS40148 PRINCE GEORGES INTERGOVERNMENTAL NETWORK COMMUNITY COORDINATING COMMITTEE
• AS11131 University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
• AS7847 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• AS5723 Johns Hopkins University
• AS25631 Gallaudet University
• AS46543 University of Maryland, Baltimore
• AS26020 Space Telescope Science Institute
• AS3999 The Pennsylvania State University
• AS2532 Library of Congress
• AS4901 The George Washington University

Adjacent networks

• AS11956 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS27026 networkMaryland
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS11164 Internet2
• AS11537 Internet2
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS1848 National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• AS27 University of Maryland
• AS6059 University System of Maryland
• AS70 National Library of Medicine
• AS3527 National Institutes of Health
• AS393689 National Library of Medicine
• AS25807 Arlington County Government
• AS293 ESnet
• AS42 WoodyNet, Inc.
• AS4 University of Southern California
• AS40148 PRINCE GEORGES INTERGOVERNMENTAL NETWORK COMMUNITY COORDINATING COMMITTEE
• AS268 Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
• AS11131 University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
• AS5723 Johns Hopkins University
• AS7847 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• AS25631 Gallaudet University

Internet exchanges

• Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn — Ashburn, United States