AS8659 — AS8659 - United Nations International Computing Centre

AS8659 announces 5 IPv4 prefixes covering 5,120 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

AS8659 belongs to the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC), the UN system's shared ICT services provider. Established in 1971 by agreement between the UN, UNDP and WHO, it runs data centres and managed IT for UN agencies and other international organisations, headquartered in Geneva.

What it's used for

• Hosting and connectivity for UN-system client organisations. UNICC operates on a cost-recovery basis and delivers infrastructure, hosting, security and collaboration services to more than seventy agencies and partner bodies from sites in Geneva, New York, Valencia, Rome and Brindisi.
• About 5,100 IPv4 addresses, mostly a cluster of /24s in 193.5.88.0/21 and 146.247.8.0/21.

Notable

• Sampled reverse DNS resolves to fw1.wipo.int — a firewall belonging to the World Intellectual Property Organization. The addresses in this AS are used by UNICC's clients, so a given prefix may front one UN agency rather than UNICC itself.
• Only five observed BGP neighbours: a leaf network buying transit for a handful of hosting sites, not a carrier.

Interesting

• Classified as government because that is the nearest honest bucket for an intergovernmental organisation, but note the shape: this is a shared services provider, and the space should be attributed to the UN system rather than to any single agency or country.

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

Announced prefixes

• 146.247.8.0/21
• 192.91.247.0/24
• 193.5.88.0/21
• 193.194.138.0/23
• 195.55.64.0/24
• 2a00:7580:10::/48

Upstream networks

• AS8220 COLT Technology Services Group Limited
• AS3352 TELEFONICA DE ESPANA S.A.U.
• AS6730 Sunrise GmbH
• AS12357 VODAFONE ESPANA S.A.U.

Downstream networks

• AS8414 Telecommunication Union

Adjacent networks

• AS8220 COLT Technology Services Group Limited
• AS8414 Telecommunication Union
• AS6730 Sunrise GmbH
• AS3352 TELEFONICA DE ESPANA S.A.U.
• AS12357 VODAFONE ESPANA S.A.U.