AS5550 — TASK-AS Gdansk University of Technology

Network type: education

AS5550 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 65,536 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

TASK-AS belongs to the Academic Computer Centre TASK at Gdansk University of Technology (Politechnika Gdanska). TASK runs the Tricity academic network serving the universities and research institutes of Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot.

What it's used for

• Campus and metropolitan connectivity for Gdansk-area academic institutions, plus TASK's own high-performance computing and storage services.
• Upstream reach is via Poland's national research network, so the AS behaves as an academic MAN rather than a commercial ISP.

Notable

• The address space is a large, contiguous university-scale block rather than the fragmented inventory typical of a reseller, which is the usual signature of an early academic allocation.
• CI TASK is a supercomputing centre as well as a network operator, so a share of the space sits behind HPC and research services rather than end-user desktops.

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

Announced prefixes

• 153.19.0.0/16
• 2001:4070::/33

Upstream networks

• AS8501 Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Science, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
• AS196844 Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Science, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS5617 Orange Polska Spolka Akcyjna

Downstream networks

• AS12831 Technical University of Gdansk, Academic Computer Center TASK
• AS12827 Wirtualna Polska Media S.A.

Adjacent networks

• AS12831 Technical University of Gdansk, Academic Computer Center TASK
• AS8501 Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Science, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
• AS196844 Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Science, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS43171 Lukasz Rafal Hamerski trading as Maxnet
• AS12827 Wirtualna Polska Media S.A.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS5617 Orange Polska Spolka Akcyjna

Internet exchanges

• Thinx IX — Warsaw, Poland