AS6356 — NERDCNET

Network type: education

AS6356 announces 5 IPv4 prefixes covering 132,096 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

NERDCNET is the University of Florida's network in Gainesville, Florida — the handle preserves the name of NERDC, the Northeast Regional Data Center, UF's long-running central computing organisation.

What it's used for

• Campus, research, and administrative networking for the University of Florida and, historically, for other institutions NERDC served as a shared data center.
• Announces a large block of legacy IPv4, consistent with an early and generous university allocation.

Notable

• The regional data centers were a distinctive feature of Florida's public higher-education system: a handful of campuses ran shared mainframe and network services for the rest of the state, and the ASN names still carry those labels long after the organisations were reorganised.
• UF is a research-intensive university, so a share of this traffic is science data moving over national research networks rather than ordinary campus browsing.

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

Announced prefixes

• 8.6.244.0/23
• 128.227.0.0/16
• 159.178.0.0/16
• 184.185.222.0/24
• 192.5.2.0/24
• 2620:104::/40

Upstream networks

• AS11096 FloridaNet
• AS22773 Cox Communications Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS11096 FloridaNet
• AS22773 Cox Communications Inc.