AS16263 — RAMAN

AS16263 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,024 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A five-letter netname that reads as a physics term and stands for a metropolitan academic network.

What it's used for

• A university's campus network. A single IPv4 prefix announced from Poland, no IPv6, one thousand and twenty-four addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• The netname and the AS handle are the same five letters. They read as the name of a scattering effect in physics, but they are an abbreviation: the city, the word academic, and three letters for a metropolitan area network.
• The holder field is the university's full name, including the words saying it is named in honour of a historical figure, so the field carries a dedication as well as an identity.
• The second registrant names the institution as a technical university, which is what it was called before it was renamed, so the record holds both eras at once.
• One block of a thousand addresses, one upstream, and nothing else: no IPv6, no second registration.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Metropolitan academic networks were built to connect the universities of one city to each other before they connected to anything else. The abbreviation survives in the netname long after the city network became a single institution's uplink.
• An abbreviation that happens to spell a real word is a gift to anyone reading routing tables and a trap for anyone searching them.

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

Announced prefixes

• 193.111.144.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS8501 Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Science, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center

Adjacent networks

• AS8501 Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Science, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center