AS3714 — KEC-NET

Network type: education

AS3714 announces 4 IPv4 prefixes covering 6,912 addresses and 15 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

KECNet (KEC-NET), the Kentucky Educational Computing Network, administered through the University of Louisville's communications services group.

What it's used for

• Networking for Kentucky educational institutions — campus, instructional, and administrative traffic rather than commercial service.

Notable

• A state-level education network: the address space belongs to schools and institutional users, not to residential subscribers.
• Registered with ARIN in 1994, from the era when state and regional academic networks were being stitched into the internet.

Interesting

• Networks like KECNet were the on-ramp for many US institutions in the early 1990s, when a university consortium — rather than a commercial ISP — was the usual way a school got connected.

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

Announced prefixes

• 66.209.160.0/20
• 199.120.154.0/24
• 216.249.128.0/23
• 216.249.136.0/21
• 2610:1e0::/35
• 2610:1e0:1801::/48
• 2610:1e0:1802::/47
• 2610:1e0:1804::/46
• 2610:1e0:1808::/45
• 2610:1e0:1810::/44
• 2610:1e0:1820::/43
• 2610:1e0:1840::/42
• 2610:1e0:1880::/41
• 2610:1e0:1900::/40
• 2610:1e0:1a00::/39
• 2610:1e0:1c00::/38
• 2610:1e0:2000::/35
• 2610:1e0:4000::/34
• 2610:1e0:8000::/33

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS10437 Kentucky Regional Optical Network (KY-RON)

Downstream networks

• AS1657 University of Louisville

Adjacent networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS1657 University of Louisville
• AS10437 Kentucky Regional Optical Network (KY-RON)