AS8617 — University of the Aegean

Network type: education

AS8617 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 8,192 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The University of the Aegean (Πανεπιστήμιο Αιγαίου), a Greek public university that is unusual for being spread across six islands — Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Rhodes, Syros and Lemnos. The AS carries its campus network.

What it's used for

• Campus connectivity for the university's departments and schools. Roughly 8,000 IPv4 addresses across four /21s, single-homed to the Greek national research and education network.
• rDNS resolves under aegean.gr where it is delegated at all — much of the space returns nothing, which is normal for a campus that keeps most hosts on internal naming.

Notable

• Institutional address space: a stub academic AS with one upstream and no downstream customers. Nothing here is eyeball or hosting space.
• The four /21s are consecutive but not contiguous, which fits the geography: the university's departments are physically separated across the Aegean islands and each site was numbered as it came online.
• One of a cluster of Greek university ASNs allocated in the same range, next to AS8611 (Athens University of Economics and Business) and AS8618 (Ionian University).

Interesting

• Very few universities anywhere have to run their production network across a chain of islands. The Greek research network's inter-island links are what make a single AS possible here at all.

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

Announced prefixes

• 195.251.152.0/21
• 195.251.160.0/20
• 195.251.184.0/21

Upstream networks

• AS5408 National Infrastructures for Research and Technology S.A.

Adjacent networks

• AS5408 National Infrastructures for Research and Technology S.A.