AS8194 — VITA

AS8194 announces 18 IPv4 prefixes covering 11,520 addresses and 4 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

VITA is the Autonomous System of Latvia's state data network. It is registered to VAS "Latvijas Valsts radio un televīzijas centrs" (LVRTC), the state-owned radio and television centre, which absorbed the Valsts informācijas tīkla aģentūra (VITA — the State Information Network Agency) when the two government companies were merged around 2010.

What it's used for

• Connectivity for Latvian state institutions: ministries, agencies and public administration. Reverse DNS in the space resolves under vita.gov.lv (e.g. ep1.vita.gov.lv), which is the plainest possible evidence of what it carries.
• LVRTC's own electronic-communications services, run over the same network.

Notable

• Classify this by use, not by holder. The holder is nominally a broadcasting company, but the AS is a government network, not a broadcaster's or an ISP's.
• The handle outlived its organisation: VITA the agency no longer exists, but its name persists in both the AS name and the reverse DNS.

Interesting

• VITA traces back to a 1992 government communications centre set up to serve Latvia's senior officials in the years right after independence, later broadened into the national state data-transmission network.

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

Announced prefixes

• 31.24.192.0/21
• 195.244.144.0/23
• 195.244.147.0/24
• 195.244.148.0/22
• 195.244.152.0/24
• 195.244.154.0/23
• 212.70.160.0/22
• 212.70.165.0/24
• 212.70.166.0/23
• 212.70.168.0/22
• 212.70.173.0/24
• 212.70.175.0/24
• 212.70.176.0/22
• 212.70.180.0/24
• 212.70.182.0/23
• 212.70.184.0/23
• 212.70.187.0/24
• 212.70.188.0/22
• 2a00:1780::/32
• 2a00:1780:dd00::/40
• 2a00:1780:de00::/39
• 2a00:1780:e000::/35

Upstream networks

• AS55002 F5, Inc.
• AS12578 SIA Tet
• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS3303 Swisscom (Schweiz) AG
• AS13194 UAB "Bite Lietuva"
• AS1257 Tele2 Sverige AB
• AS20473 The Constant Company, LLC
• AS50304 Blix Solutions AS

Downstream networks

• AS41424 Valsts akciju sabiedriba "Latvijas dzelzcels"
• AS201547 National Library of Latvia
• AS210213 VAS "Latvijas Valsts radio un televizijas centrs"
• AS29345 Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of University of Latvia
• AS51955 Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of University of Latvia
• AS206600 Ministry of foreign affairs of the Republic of Latvia
• AS206362 SIA OSS Networks
• AS12443 Department of Riga State City Municipality
• AS62220 State Regional Development Agency
• AS57956 RP SIA "Rigas Satiksme"
• AS25241 Information Centre of the Ministry of the Interior
• AS29466 Valsts Ienemumu Dienests
• AS60324 Latvijas Sabiedriskais medijs VSIA
• AS12509 LATVIJAS BANKA
• AS33867 AIR BALTIC CORPORATION AS
• AS43104 SJSC RIGA International Airport
• AS24972 SIA LURSOFT IT
• AS5538 Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of University of Latvia

Adjacent networks

• AS55002 F5, Inc.
• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS13194 UAB "Bite Lietuva"
• AS41424 Valsts akciju sabiedriba "Latvijas dzelzcels"
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS12578 SIA Tet
• AS201547 National Library of Latvia
• AS210213 VAS "Latvijas Valsts radio un televizijas centrs"
• AS29345 Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of University of Latvia
• AS51955 Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of University of Latvia
• AS5538 Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of University of Latvia
• AS206600 Ministry of foreign affairs of the Republic of Latvia
• AS206362 SIA OSS Networks
• AS3303 Swisscom (Schweiz) AG
• AS62220 State Regional Development Agency
• AS12443 Department of Riga State City Municipality
• AS57956 RP SIA "Rigas Satiksme"
• AS60324 Latvijas Sabiedriskais medijs VSIA
• AS25241 Information Centre of the Ministry of the Interior
• AS29466 Valsts Ienemumu Dienests
• AS1257 Tele2 Sverige AB
• AS12509 LATVIJAS BANKA
• AS33867 AIR BALTIC CORPORATION AS
• AS43104 SJSC RIGA International Airport
• AS24972 SIA LURSOFT IT

Internet exchanges

• STHIX - Stockholm — Stockholm, Sweden
• Stockholm Internet Exchange — Stockholm, Sweden
• Baltic Internet Exchange — Vilnius, Lithuania
• Santa Monica Internet Local Exchange — Riga, Latvia