AS10875 FUNDACAO DE APOIO DA UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO

AS10875 is registered to a fundação de apoio, one of the foundations that Brazilian federal universities use to administer research grants, contracts and extension projects. The registry name is truncated to FUNDACAO DE APOIO DA UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO, and the routing identifies the parent: its upstream is the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, [AS2716](https://asn.ipinfo.app/AS2716).

What it's used for

University-affiliated research and administrative networking, reached through the university itself rather than a commercial carrier. RIS shows 1 announced IPv4 prefix (200.238.0.0/24, 256 addresses), 1 announced IPv6 prefix (2804:0:7e00::/40), and 7 observed neighbours.

The interesting asymmetry is between the two families. The IPv4 footprint is a single /24, about as small as a routed network gets, while the IPv6 announcement is a /40, an allocation with room for hundreds of thousands of subnets. That is characteristic of a Brazilian academic network that received generous v6 space from NIC.br in the national IPv6 push and is scarce on v4 because Latin American v4 ran out early. The handful of neighbours confirms an edge network: it consumes connectivity, it does not sell it.

Notable

Fundações de apoio are legally separate non-profits from the universities they serve, which is why they hold their own ASN and address space instead of living inside the university's. Functionally the traffic is academic: project staff, grant administration, and research support services sitting alongside the campus network.

Interesting

The v6 block sits inside 2800::/12, the range IANA delegated to LACNIC, so the prefix alone places the network in Latin America before you look up a single record.