AS14088 — WIU7

AS14088 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 2,048 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Handle, netname and organisation are the same four characters: initials and a unit number.

What it's used for

• A regional education service agency's network. 3,072 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• 208.94.40.0/21 carries the netname WIU7, identical to the handle the AS is filed under.
• The lookup for 204.171.48.0/22 failed.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• The number is the agency's own designation, assigned by a state that carved its schools into numbered service regions decades ago. Networks named this way are legible to anyone inside the system and meaningless to everyone else, which describes most public sector naming.
• Two blocks, one upstream, nothing published. Sister agencies elsewhere in this same numbering scheme run dozens of BGP neighbours and announce large IPv6 estates, so the model does not determine the network. Whether an agency becomes a regional carrier or stays a single customer depends on decisions made locally and long ago.
• A /21 and a /22 for a body serving a county's schools is generous space by present standards and normal for when it was granted.
• Nothing answers a reverse lookup, which for a network full of school children is the right default and, in this range, an increasingly common one.

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

Announced prefixes

• 208.94.40.0/21

Upstream networks

• AS33154 DQE Communications LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS33154 DQE Communications LLC