AS160 — U-CHICAGO-AS

Network type: education

AS160 announces 5 IPv4 prefixes covering 115,200 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

An early, low-numbered allocation serving the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

What it's used for

• Campus, research, and administrative networking for the university and its affiliated laboratories.

Notable

• An IP here is institutional (campus buildings, dorms, labs, research clusters), classified education rather than commercial hosting.

Interesting

• A three-digit AS number reflects how early the university connected, when numbers were still handed out sequentially in small blocks.

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

Announced prefixes

• 128.135.0.0/16
• 192.5.85.0/24
• 192.170.192.0/18
• 198.177.153.0/24
• 205.208.0.0/17
• 2605:9a00::/48
• 2605:9a00:10::/48

Upstream networks

• AS11164 Internet2
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS11537 Internet2
• AS293 ESnet
• AS2153 CENIC

Adjacent networks

• AS11164 Internet2
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS11537 Internet2
• AS293 ESnet
• AS2153 CENIC