AS21 — RAND - The RAND Corporation

AS21 announces 9 IPv4 prefixes covering 2,560 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

An early allocation (RAND) belonging to the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit policy research organization in Santa Monica, California.

What it's used for

• Research networking for the think tank.

Notable

• A low AS number reflects an allocation from the internet's earliest years. A research institution's network, not a commercial ISP.

Interesting

• RAND's Paul Baran developed foundational ideas on distributed, packet-switched communication that influenced the design of the ARPANET.

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

Announced prefixes

• 130.154.0.0/23
• 130.154.3.0/24
• 130.154.11.0/24
• 130.154.30.0/24
• 130.154.33.0/24
• 130.154.111.0/24
• 130.154.113.0/24
• 166.67.240.0/24
• 192.5.14.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS46887 Crown Castle Fiber LLC
• AS7046 Verizon Business
• AS5650 Frontier Communications of America, Inc.
• AS7016 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS46887 Crown Castle Fiber LLC
• AS7046 Verizon Business
• AS5650 Frontier Communications of America, Inc.
• AS7016 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 10 not-found announcements; 1 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 10% of announcements registered; 6 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-CCF, AS-CCF-TEST, AS-COMCAST-EDIA, AS-FRONTIER, AS-MTMACCESS.