AS10560 Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

The ASN of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, the private Mexican university universally known as Tec de Monterrey. RIPEstat carries no vanity handle for it, just the number and the full legal name.

What it's used for

A large multi-campus university network. RIS sees 6 announced IPv4 prefixes carrying 14,336 addresses, no IPv6, and one observed neighbour. Every prefix sits inside 132.254.0.0/16: a /20 at 132.254.80.0 and five /21s scattered through the same Class B.

The pattern of announcing pieces of a single /16 rather than the /16 itself is what you would expect from an institution that has grown across many sites over a long period. Tec de Monterrey is not one campus but a national system with locations across Mexico, and carving a legacy Class B into /20s and /21s is a natural way to hand blocks out per site while keeping them all under one ASN.

Notable

The single observed neighbour is the giveaway that this is a stub, not a carrier. Fourteen thousand addresses is a substantial footprint, and an operator with that much space acting as a wholesale provider would show far more peers. One neighbour means the university connects upward through a single provider path and announces its own space through it.

Interesting

Tec de Monterrey was an early and prominent node in Mexico's academic internet, and the 132.254.0.0/16 allocation reflects that: a full Class B was something you could still be given when Mexican universities were first getting connected.