AS6172 — MUSD-INTERNET

Network type: education

AS6172 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 32,768 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

MUSD-INTERNET belongs to Mesa Public Schools, the K-12 public school district serving Mesa, Arizona, and one of the largest districts in the state.

What it's used for

• Internet connectivity for district schools and administrative sites: classroom networks, student devices, and district services.
• About 32k IPv4 addresses, a footprint that matches a district running its own routed network across many campuses rather than buying managed service.

Notable

• An institutional education address, not a residential one. Traffic here originates from school buildings during the school day, which gives the space a distinctly bursty weekday profile.
• ARIN registered this ASN to the district in 2014, so the low number is a reassignment. There is no early-internet lineage behind it.

Interesting

• Large US school districts are a quietly significant class of AS operator. Federal E-Rate funding makes running real network infrastructure affordable at a scale that would otherwise be out of reach for a public agency.

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

Announced prefixes

• 204.43.128.0/17

Upstream networks

• AS62600 Arizona Board of Regents
• AS22773 Cox Communications Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS62600 Arizona Board of Regents
• AS22773 Cox Communications Inc.