AS3597 — Fundacion InnovaT

Network type: education

AS3597 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 65,792 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Fundación InnovaT, based in Buenos Aires, operates InnovaRed — Argentina's national research and education network, connecting universities and research institutions to each other and to the wider academic internet.

What it's used for

• Backbone connectivity for Argentine universities and research institutes.
• International research links, letting Argentine academics reach peer NRENs and research networks abroad.
• Announcing the legacy 168.96.0.0/16 block long associated with Argentina's academic and scientific networking.

Notable

• A research and education network (NREN), not a commercial ISP. Its customers are institutions, so the traffic profile is academic rather than consumer.
• Like most NRENs it is comparatively small in address count but strategically central: a lot of a country's university traffic passes through one of these.

Interesting

• National research networks were often a country's first internet connection, which is why so many of them hold AS numbers this far down the range.

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

Announced prefixes

• 168.96.0.0/16
• 200.10.202.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS7049 Silica Networks Argentina S.A.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC

Downstream networks

• AS265884 CONSEJO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Y TECNICAS (CONICET)

Adjacent networks

• AS7049 Silica Networks Argentina S.A.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS265884 CONSEJO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Y TECNICAS (CONICET)