Autonomous system
AS10079 UNIWESTSYD-AS-AP University of Western Sydney
Education APNIC
Summary
Western Sydney University
UNIWESTSYD-AS-AP is the network of Western Sydney University, the multi-campus public university formerly branded the University of Western Sydney. It is a textbook single-homed campus AS.
What it's used for
The AS carries the university's own estate: campus wired and wireless networks across Parramatta, Penrith, Campbelltown, Bankstown and the other sites, plus staff and student services, research infrastructure and public-facing web systems. It exists so the institution can hold and announce its own address space rather than take PA space from a provider.
Notable
This is education, and the routing is about as clean an example as the sweep produces. RIS sees exactly 1 IPv4 prefix — a 137.154.0.0/16, 65,536 addresses — and 1 observed neighbour. Both halves are diagnostic. A single unfragmented /16 is a legacy Class B handed to an early-connected university and never chopped up, which is what happens when one organisation uses its own space internally and never has to sell pieces of it. And one neighbour means one upstream: in Australia that upstream is effectively always AARNet, the national research and education network, which aggregates the universities and buys commodity transit on their behalf. A commercial network of 65k addresses would multihome as a matter of survival; a campus behind AARNet has no reason to.
Interesting
The size is deceptive. A /16 sounds enormous today, but it reflects when the university got online, not how big it is now — allocations from that era were generous and are almost never returned.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS7575 | Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet) | 205 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 65.54K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS10079- Registry name
- UNIWESTSYD-AS-AP
- Registrant
- University of Western Sydney
- Abuse contact
- R.Mihalek@westernsydney.edu.au
- Registered
- 2024-02-08
- Last changed
- 2024-02-08
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 144 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS10079
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 144 of 144 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS10079
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere