AS6127 — IDSC

AS6127 announces 24 IPv4 prefixes covering 8,192 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

IDSC is Egypt's Information and Decision Support Center, the information and analysis body attached to the Egyptian Cabinet. It is a government network based in Cairo.

What it's used for

• Connectivity for a government information centre: IDSC's own systems and the ICT services it provides to Egyptian government bodies. Its announced space is drawn entirely from 163.121.0.0/16, a legacy Egyptian /16 registered to IDSC itself.
• It multi-homes across several international transit providers, which is what a national government body needs for reachability rather than what a provider needs to sell capacity.

Notable

• A government address: IPs in 163.121.0.0/16 belong to Egyptian public-sector systems, not to consumers or hosting customers. Egyptian home broadband comes from commercial ISPs and lives in entirely different space.
• The organisation dates to 1985 and functions as both an information provider and a policy think tank for the Cabinet, an unusually broad remit for an entity that also holds a /16.

Interesting

• The record has moved registries twice. It was created in the RIPE database, transferred to AFRINIC in 2007 when the African registry took over the region's resources, and ARIN still shows the number itself as delegated out of its blocks. Three registries touch one Egyptian government ASN.

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

Announced prefixes

• 163.121.6.0/24
• 163.121.8.0/23
• 163.121.10.0/24
• 163.121.15.0/24
• 163.121.18.0/24
• 163.121.21.0/24
• 163.121.24.0/24
• 163.121.26.0/24
• 163.121.29.0/24
• 163.121.32.0/24
• 163.121.35.0/24
• 163.121.40.0/24
• 163.121.49.0/24
• 163.121.57.0/24
• 163.121.58.0/23
• 163.121.60.0/22
• 163.121.64.0/24
• 163.121.70.0/24
• 163.121.72.0/22
• 163.121.76.0/24
• 163.121.79.0/24
• 163.121.82.0/24
• 163.121.84.0/24
• 163.121.126.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS8452 IDDQD-AS
• AS24863 Link Egypt (Link.NET)
• AS36992 ETISALAT MISR

Downstream networks

• AS25576 AFMIC

Adjacent networks

• AS8452 IDDQD-AS
• AS24863 Link Egypt (Link.NET)
• AS36992 ETISALAT MISR
• AS25576 AFMIC