AS7577 — VTC-AS-AP Vocational Training Council Hong Kong

Network type: education

AS7577 announces 6 IPv4 prefixes covering 6,144 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The Vocational Training Council (VTC-AS-AP), Hong Kong's largest vocational-and-professional education and training provider, a statutory body whose member institutions include the Institutes of Vocational Education (IVE) and a number of specialist training campuses.

What it's used for

• Campus networking across VTC's institutions: staff and student systems, teaching labs, and the council's own public-facing services.
• Reverse DNS is consistently institutional, sitting under vtc.edu.hk — name servers, VPN portals and administrative systems, with nothing resembling a subscriber pool.

Notable

• An IP here is institutional education space, not an eyeball ISP. It belongs to a publicly funded training body, so traffic is campus staff, students and the council's servers.
• The address space is a set of 202.x blocks from APNIC's early Hong Kong allocations, alongside one legacy 192.94.174.0/24.

Interesting

• VTC is not a university but a statutory training council, so it is tagged education without the university tag: its remit is vocational and technical training rather than degree-granting research.

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

Announced prefixes

• 192.94.174.0/24
• 202.20.100.0/23
• 202.40.208.0/21
• 202.75.80.0/21
• 202.75.88.0/22
• 202.75.93.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS9304 HGC Global Communications Limited
• AS4635 Hong Kong Internet Exchange--Route Server 1
• AS45474 Nexusguard Pte. Ltd.
• AS9930 TIME dotCom Berhad No. 14, Jalan Majistret U1/26 Hicom Glenmarie Industrial Park 40150 Shah Alam Selangor, Malaysia
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS8359 MTS PJSC

Adjacent networks

• AS9304 HGC Global Communications Limited
• AS4635 Hong Kong Internet Exchange--Route Server 1
• AS45474 Nexusguard Pte. Ltd.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS8359 MTS PJSC
• AS9930 TIME dotCom Berhad No. 14, Jalan Majistret U1/26 Hicom Glenmarie Industrial Park 40150 Shah Alam Selangor, Malaysia

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 20 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 95 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-ANC, AS-BTN-CUSTOMERS, AS-CTBC-TOOLS-6, AS-CWHKBN, AS-HKIX, AS-HKT-AS4515, AS-HKT-NETVIGATOR, AS-HKTCUSTOMER, AS-HTHK-IG, AS-HURRICANE, AS-HUTCHCITY, AS-HWNG-DOWNSTREAMS, AS-KDD, AS-KORNETBGP, AS-NEXUSGUARD-CLIENTS, AS-PACNET, AS-TELSTRA-INTL-CUSTOMERS-4637, AS-TMHK, AS20965:AS-FROM-TEIN-TO-GEANT, AS293:AS-FROM-SINGAREN-TO-ESNET, AS58453:AS-ASIAASCUST, AS58453:AS-ASIAASCUST, AS58453:AS-ASIATEST.

Internet exchanges

• Hong Kong Internet Exchange — Hong Kong, China