AS3208 — ARN

Network type: education

AS3208 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 8,192 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

ARN — the Algerian Academic Research Network, Algeria's national research and education network (NREN), funded by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

What it's used for

• Connecting Algeria's universities, research centres, and higher schools — around a hundred institutions — to each other and to the global research internet.
• A national MPLS backbone built across several points of presence, riding on Algérie Télécom's fibre infrastructure.
• International links to GÉANT, the pan-European research network, and to ASREN, the Arab States research network, alongside commodity internet transit.

Notable

• NREN address space is institutional and academic. Traffic from it is students, faculty, campus systems, and research workloads — not consumers, and not hosting tenants.
• ARN has been operated since 1994 by CERIST, Algeria's research centre for scientific and technical information, making it one of the longer-running academic networks on the African continent.

Interesting

• Research networks exist because ordinary commercial transit is a poor fit for science: a single physics or genomics dataset can dwarf a university's entire month of normal traffic, and NRENs give those flows a dedicated path to peer institutions abroad.

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

Announced prefixes

• 193.194.64.0/19
• 2001:4340::/32

Upstream networks

• AS21320 GEANT Vereniging
• AS36947 Telecom Algeria
• AS20965 GEANT Vereniging

Downstream networks

• AS16214 C.E.R.I.S.T.

Adjacent networks

• AS36947 Telecom Algeria
• AS21320 GEANT Vereniging
• AS16214 C.E.R.I.S.T.
• AS20965 GEANT Vereniging