AS45773 — HECPERN-AS-PK - PERN AS Content Servie Provider, Islamabad, Pakistan

AS45773 announces 8 IPv4 prefixes covering 12,032 addresses and 3 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

HECPERN-AS-PK is operated by Pakistan Education & Research Network (PERN).

What it's used for

• The address space carries traffic for higher education institutions, evidenced by registrants including University of Engineering Technology Lahore, Bahria University Islamabad, Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University Lyari, and COMSATS Institute of Information Technology.
• The AS announces 12,032 IPv4 addresses and 126 IPv6 prefixes across 8 IPv4 prefixes, with only 3 observed neighbours, indicating a regional access network for academic sites rather than a transit provider.
• Traffic consists of research, academic, and institutional data for over 400 higher education institutions across Pakistan.

Notable

• Registrants for the largest prefixes (111.68.96.0/20, 121.52.144.0/20) are listed as HEC (Higher Education Commission), while smaller prefixes are registered directly to specific universities.
• The inventory includes a mix of netnames such as PERN-PK, HECPERN-PK, and university-specific identifiers like BUI-PK and CIITPERN-PK.
• Reverse DNS entries include hec.gov.pk and ciitlahore.edu.pk, confirming the academic nature of the endpoints.

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

Announced prefixes

• 45.64.24.0/22
• 103.4.92.0/22
• 103.139.122.0/24
• 103.139.124.0/23
• 111.68.96.0/20
• 121.52.144.0/20
• 165.99.206.0/23
• 165.101.126.0/23
• 2001:df5:d2c0::/48
• 2400:fc00::/32
• 2404:e2c0::/32

Upstream networks

• AS38193 Transworld Associates (Pvt.) Ltd.
• AS17557 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited
• AS24490 Trans-Eurasia Information Network (TEIN2) - SG

Adjacent networks

• AS38193 Transworld Associates (Pvt.) Ltd.
• AS17557 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited
• AS24490 Trans-Eurasia Information Network (TEIN2) - SG

Routing security

• RPKI: 113 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 13 ROAs.
• ASPA: 3 authorised providers.
• IRR: 60% of announcements registered; 162 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-EMIX, AS-HURRICANE, AS-HURRICANEV6, AS-KDDCUSTOMER2, AS-OPTUS, AS-SETPTCL, AS-TELSTRA-INTL-CUSTOMERS, AS20965:AS-FROM-TEIN-TO-GEANT, AS293:AS-FROM-SINGAREN-TO-ESNET, AS38193:AS-PEERS, AS45773:AS-PERN, AS45773:AS-PERN-V6, AS58453:AS-ASIAASCUST, AS58453:AS-ASIAASCUST, AS7473:AS-CUSTOMERS:AS17557, AS9498:AS-BHARTI-IN.