AS8501 — PIONIER-AS PIONIER, National Research and Education Network in Poland

Network type: education

AS8501 announces 5 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,792 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

PIONIER-AS is the autonomous system of PIONIER, the Polish Optical Internet national research and education network. The AS is registered to the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, whose Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) operates the network.

What it's used for

• The national backbone linking Poland's academic city networks (MANs), universities, institutes and supercomputing centres to each other, to GÉANT and to the commercial internet.
• Carrying research traffic for large collaborations, grid/HPC projects and national e-infrastructure services run out of PSNC.

Notable

• The IPv4 footprint is small for an NREN — roughly 1,800 addresses in a handful of 212.191.x /24s, plus one IPv6 block. That is because this AS numbers the backbone itself; member universities and MANs hold their own address space and their own AS numbers, and reach the internet through PIONIER.
• rDNS is almost entirely router naming under rtr.pionier.gov.pl — hostnames encode the link endpoints between city gateways (Poznań, Łódź, Kraków, Białystok, Bydgoszcz, Kielce, Częstochowa). There are no subscriber pools at all: this is infrastructure address space.
• A few addresses in the range resolve to Akamai cache appliances, the usual arrangement of a research network hosting a CDN node on-net for its members.

Interesting

• The .gov.pl domain in the router names reflects PIONIER's status as state-funded national infrastructure rather than a commercial carrier.

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

Announced prefixes

• 212.191.224.0/23
• 212.191.227.0/24
• 212.191.229.0/24
• 212.191.240.0/23
• 212.191.244.0/24
• 2001:b10:c000::/35

Upstream networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS2603 NORDUnet
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS20965 GEANT Vereniging
• AS21320 GEANT Vereniging
• AS2607 Zdruzenie pouzivatelov Slovenskej akademickej datovej siete SANET
• AS1853 ACONET

Downstream networks

• AS8508 Silesian University of Technology, Computer Centre
• AS25468 Rzeszow University of Technology
• AS15798 University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
• AS8865 Politechnika Bialostocka
• AS15373 Politechnika Czestochowska
• AS8664 University of Warsaw
• AS8267 Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH
• AS21182 Opole University
• AS8286 Zachodniopomorski Uniwersytet Technologiczny w Szczecinie, Akademickie Centrum Informatyki
• AS24848 Kielce University of Technology
• AS12324 Maria Curie-Sklodowska University
• AS8326 Politechnika Bydgoska im. Jana i Jedrzeja Sniadeckich
• AS8256 Lodz University of Technology
• AS28678 Technical University of Koszalin
• AS50561 Akademia Nauk Stosowanych w Elblagu
• AS39909 State Research Institute
• AS1887 PANSTWOWY INSTYTUT BADAWCZY
• AS9103 Uniwersytet Zielonogorski
• AS9112 Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Science, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
• AS8970 Wroclaw Centre of Networking and Supercomputing
• AS16263 Uniwersytet Radomski im. Kazimierza Pulaskiego
• AS5550 Technical University of Gdansk, Academic Computer Center TASK
• AS12423 Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun

Adjacent networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS2603 NORDUnet
• AS1887 PANSTWOWY INSTYTUT BADAWCZY
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS20965 GEANT Vereniging
• AS8508 Silesian University of Technology, Computer Centre
• AS9112 Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Science, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
• AS8865 Politechnika Bialostocka
• AS25468 Rzeszow University of Technology
• AS15798 University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
• AS21320 GEANT Vereniging
• AS8664 University of Warsaw
• AS12324 Maria Curie-Sklodowska University
• AS15373 Politechnika Czestochowska
• AS24848 Kielce University of Technology
• AS8267 Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH
• AS21182 Opole University
• AS8286 Zachodniopomorski Uniwersytet Technologiczny w Szczecinie, Akademickie Centrum Informatyki
• AS8970 Wroclaw Centre of Networking and Supercomputing
• AS8326 Politechnika Bydgoska im. Jana i Jedrzeja Sniadeckich
• AS8256 Lodz University of Technology
• AS28678 Technical University of Koszalin
• AS39909 State Research Institute
• AS50561 Akademia Nauk Stosowanych w Elblagu
• AS2607 Zdruzenie pouzivatelov Slovenskej akademickej datovej siete SANET