AS111 — BOSTONU-AS

Network type: education

AS111 announces 8 IPv4 prefixes covering 133,376 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

An early, low-numbered allocation serving Boston University, a large private research university in Boston, Massachusetts.

What it's used for

• Campus, research, and administrative networking for BU's students, dorms, and labs.

Notable

• An IP here is institutional (campus, dorms, labs, research clusters), classified education rather than commercial hosting.
• A three-digit AS number reflects how early BU connected, when numbers were handed out sequentially in the internet's first years.

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

Announced prefixes

• 128.197.0.0/16
• 168.122.0.0/16
• 192.5.206.0/23
• 192.12.185.0/24
• 192.12.186.0/23
• 192.12.189.0/24
• 192.12.190.0/23
• 192.54.224.0/24
• 2631:5000::/28

Upstream networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS11537 Internet2
• AS11164 Internet2

Adjacent networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS11537 Internet2
• AS11164 Internet2