AS6509 — CANARIE-NTN

Network type: education

AS6509 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 768 addresses and 25 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

CANARIE-NTN belongs to CANARIE, Canada's national research and education network (NREN), based in Ottawa. CANARIE operates the backbone that interconnects Canada's provincial research networks, universities, colleges and research institutions.

What it's used for

• Research and education networking rather than commercial service. The AS has a deliberately small routed footprint: a single announced IPv4 /24 alongside IPv6 prefixes.
• Reverse DNS on the announced space resolves to CANARIE backbone routers under network.canarie.ca, confirming this is infrastructure addressing rather than end-user space.

Notable

• CANARIE is the Canadian peer of NRENs such as Internet2 in the US, GEANT in Europe and JANET in the UK, and connects Canadian researchers into the international research-network fabric.
• The ARIN organisation record dates to 1994 and the ASN to 1996, placing CANARIE among the genuinely early national research-network allocations.

Interesting

• CANARIE's institutional address space largely sits with the regional and university networks it federates, which is why the national backbone AS itself announces so little. A small routed footprint here is a sign of a well-structured NREN, not a small network.

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

Announced prefixes

• 199.212.24.0/24
• 205.189.32.0/24
• 208.75.75.0/24
• 2001:410::/39
• 2001:410:103::/48
• 2001:410:104::/46
• 2001:410:108::/45
• 2001:410:110::/44
• 2001:410:120::/43
• 2001:410:140::/42
• 2001:410:180::/41
• 2001:410:200::/39
• 2001:410:400::/38
• 2001:410:800::/37
• 2001:410:1000::/36
• 2001:410:2000::/35
• 2001:410:4000::/34
• 2001:410:8100::/40
• 2001:410:8200::/39
• 2001:410:8400::/38
• 2001:410:8800::/37
• 2001:410:9000::/36
• 2001:410:a100::/40
• 2001:410:a200::/39
• 2001:410:a400::/38
• 2001:410:a800::/37
• 2001:410:b000::/36
• 2001:410:c000::/34

Upstream networks

• AS53904 CANARIE Inc
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS11537 Internet2
• AS1103 SURF B.V.
• AS7575 Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet)
• AS293 ESnet
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS2153 CENIC

Downstream networks

• AS376 Reseau d'Informations Scientifiques du Quebec (RISQ Inc.)
• AS271 BCNET
• AS15296 Cybera Inc
• AS611 NB-PEI Educational Computer Network
• AS26677 ORION
• AS26806 SRNet Saskatchewan Research Network Inc.
• AS2682 Shared Services Canada
• AS8111 Dalhousie University
• AS10965 MRNet
• AS53904 CANARIE Inc
• AS7860 University of Prince Edward Island
• AS7885 Yukon University
• AS10972 Memorial University, NF CAnet 2 gigaPOP
• AS14500 Galaxy Broadband Communications Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS11537 Internet2
• AS376 Reseau d'Informations Scientifiques du Quebec (RISQ Inc.)
• AS26677 ORION
• AS271 BCNET
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS2153 CENIC
• AS293 ESnet
• AS15296 Cybera Inc
• AS7575 Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet)
• AS1103 SURF B.V.
• AS26806 SRNet Saskatchewan Research Network Inc.
• AS10965 MRNet
• AS2682 Shared Services Canada
• AS611 NB-PEI Educational Computer Network
• AS8111 Dalhousie University
• AS53904 CANARIE Inc
• AS10972 Memorial University, NF CAnet 2 gigaPOP
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS7860 University of Prince Edward Island
• AS14500 Galaxy Broadband Communications Inc.
• AS7885 Yukon University
• AS15169 Google LLC
• AS2907 Research Organization of Information and Systems, National Institute of Informatics
• AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc.
• AS10764 University of Illinois

Internet exchanges

• Seattle Internet Exchange — Seattle, United States
• Toronto Internet Exchange — Toronto, Canada
• YYCIX Calgary Internet Exchange — Calgary, Canada
• CANIX Internet Exchange - Montreal — Montreal, Canada
• Vancouver Internet Exchange — Vancouver, Canada
• YXEIX Saskatoon Internet Exchange — Saskatoon, Canada
• CANIX Internet Exchange - Halifax — Halifax, Canada