AS10153 YZUCRC-NET-AP Yuan Ze University Communications Research Center Network

YZUCRC-NET-AP belongs to the Communications Research Center (CRC) of Yuan Ze University, a private university in Taoyuan, Taiwan, founded by the Far Eastern Group. The CRC was established in 1992, is designated a Top Research Center by Taiwan's Ministry of Education, and works on wireless and electromagnetic communications technology with about twenty faculty across seven research groups.

What it's used for

Research networking for a university lab. In RIS the AS is seen announcing no IPv4 prefixes at all and a single IPv6 /48, 2406:9dc0:1010::/48, with 1 observed BGP neighbour. That is an unusual and informative shape. A /48 is an end-site allocation, not a provider block, and a v6-only origination with one upstream is what a research group looks like when it holds an AS number for experimental or dual-stack work while its everyday IPv4 connectivity rides inside the parent university's or the national research network's address space rather than being originated here.

Notable

This is an education and research network. Nothing about the footprint fits a commercial role: there is no IPv4 to sell, no customer cone, and a single peer, so it cannot be a carrier, a hosting provider or an eyeball ISP. Read the AS as a campus research allocation and geolocate it to Yuan Ze University in Taoyuan.

Interesting

The CRC's own research is in communications technology, so an AS that exists mainly to carry an IPv6 experiment is fitting: the network is partly the object of study.