AS56479 — HCT-AS Higher Colleges of Technology

AS56479 announces 5 IPv4 prefixes covering 18,176 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

HCT-AS is operated by Higher Colleges of Technology.

What it's used for

• The address space carries institutional traffic for the UAE's largest applied higher educational institution, with netnames HCT-NET and HCTIN-EMIRNET identifying the network segments.
• The AS announces 18,176 IPv4 addresses across 7 prefixes while maintaining only 1 observed neighbour, a ratio indicative of an internal corporate or institutional estate rather than a transit or access provider.
• Traffic from this AS consists of staff, students, and administrative endpoints connecting to the internet from HCT's facilities throughout the United Arab Emirates.

Notable

• Registrants align with the announcer, showing HCT Abuse Role for the 31.29.64.0/21, 31.29.72.0/21, and 31.29.80.0/20 blocks, and ETISALAT Abuse Handling for the 194.170.32.0/19 and 195.229.175.0/24 blocks.
• The inventory is split between two distinct netnames, with the HCTIN-EMIRNET blocks registered to Etisalat, suggesting a historical or ongoing relationship with the national telecommunications provider for specific address ranges.
• The address inventory is finely subdivided into seven prefixes, consistent with site-by-site segmentation for a multi-campus educational institution.

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

Announced prefixes

• 31.29.64.0/19
• 194.170.32.0/19
• 195.229.175.0/24
• 195.229.176.0/22
• 195.229.180.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS5384 EMIRATES TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP COMPANY (ETISALAT GROUP) PJSC

Adjacent networks

• AS5384 EMIRATES TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP COMPANY (ETISALAT GROUP) PJSC

Routing security

• RPKI: 8 valid, 0 invalid and 2 not-found announcements; 8 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 80% of announcements registered; 8 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-BTELEKOM, AS-EMIX, AS-KDDCUSTOMER2, AS-RETN-ACTUAL-V4.