Autonomous system
AS10560 Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Education APNIC
Summary
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
education university research legacy
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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS11172 | Alestra, S. de R.L. de C.V. | 344 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 14.34K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| MX | Mexico | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS10560- Registry name
- 10560
- Registrant
- Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@itesm.mx
- Registered
- 1997-09-12
- Last changed
- 2010-05-16
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 6 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS10560
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 83% registered · 5 of 6 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS10560
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 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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