AS7950 — HC-AS

Network type: education

AS7950 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 65,536 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

HC-AS is the Autonomous System of Holland College, the public community college of Prince Edward Island, based in Charlottetown. It carries the college's campus network.

What it's used for

• Campus internet access for Holland College students, staff and labs across its PEI campuses and training centres.
• The college's own public-facing services (its hollandc.pe.ca and hollandcollege.com presence, learning systems, administration).
• Multihoming to regional Canadian upstreams rather than a single provider.

Notable

• The AS announces 142.87.0.0/16 — a full legacy Class B, registered to the college in 1993, back when a /16 was the standard unit handed to an institution. That is a very large allocation relative to the size of the school today, which is typical of pre-CIDR education blocks.
• The address space is institutional, not eyeball: addresses here belong to campus machines, Wi-Fi and lab networks, not to home broadband subscribers. Traffic from this AS is best read as "someone on a college network".

Interesting

• Holland College is a college rather than a research university, which makes an ARIN Class B and an early AS number a slightly unusual pairing. Both are artifacts of how generously address space was assigned in the early 1990s, not a measure of network size.

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

Announced prefixes

• 142.87.0.0/16

Upstream networks

• AS11260 EastLink
• AS7860 University of Prince Edward Island

Adjacent networks

• AS11260 EastLink
• AS7860 University of Prince Edward Island