AS12118 — WVU

AS12118 announces 6 IPv4 prefixes covering 91,648 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The campus network of West Virginia University in Morgantown, which also carries space for its health system and for a national radio astronomy site.

What it's used for

• Campus, residential and academic networking. The WVU-RESNET block and reverse DNS under resnet.wvu.edu are the student housing network; the rest is general campus space.

Notable

• Two of the six announced prefixes belong to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, registered as NRAO-GB and NRAO-GB3. GB is Green Bank, the West Virginia site that operates the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world and sits inside the National Radio Quiet Zone. The university is its route to the internet.
• Another block is registered to United Hospital Center under the netname WVUMEDICINE-WV, so the WVU Medicine hospital network rides the same AS as the campus.
• 91,000 addresses over six prefixes against three observed neighbours — a self-contained end site, not a network that carries anyone else's traffic by choice.

Interesting

• A university announcing a national observatory's address space is a reminder of how much US research infrastructure is reached through whichever campus happens to be nearest. In Green Bank's case that geography matters twice over, since the Quiet Zone restricts radio transmission for miles around and makes ordinary connectivity options scarce.

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

Announced prefixes

• 69.161.224.0/19
• 72.50.128.0/18
• 157.182.0.0/16
• 192.33.116.0/24
• 192.92.122.0/24
• 205.153.52.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS33154 DQE Communications LLC
• AS5650 Frontier Communications of America, Inc.
• AS5050 Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Adjacent networks

• AS33154 DQE Communications LLC
• AS5650 Frontier Communications of America, Inc.
• AS5050 Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center