Autonomous system
AS10886 MAX-GIGAPOP
Education ARIN Educational/Research
Summary
Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) / University of Maryland
education research transit legacy
MAX-GIGAPOP is Mid-Atlantic Crossroads, the regional research and education network operated out of the University of Maryland. A "GigaPoP" is a shared high-capacity aggregation point, and that is exactly what this AS is.
What it's used for
Regional academic interconnection, not campus access. RIS shows 10 announced IPv4 prefixes with 10,240 addresses, 4 announced IPv6 prefixes, and 30 observed neighbours.
Thirty neighbours against ten thousand addresses is the whole story. Networks that small are normally single-homed edges; a network that peers with dozens of ASes while holding almost no address space is an aggregator, carrying other people's traffic between member institutions, national backbones such as Internet2, and commercial peers. The address space is infrastructure, not user pools.
The reverse DNS backs this up precisely. Sampled names include penn-state-re-demarc.maxgigapop.net, literally the demarcation point handed to a member university, umcp-atm.umd.edu on the Maryland campus side, and dia.static.tfhrc2.gov, a federal highway research facility. Universities and government research labs, connected through a shared exchange, is the definition of a GigaPoP.
Notable
The prefix list is a patchwork drawn from several different providers' space (65.113, 63.239, 38.124, 209.201), which is what happens when a regional exchange absorbs connections and address assignments from many upstreams over three decades.
Interesting
Among the announcements are 199.7.91.0/24 and 2001:500:2d::/48. Those blocks are home to d.root-servers.net, one of the thirteen DNS root servers, which the University of Maryland has operated since the earliest days of the root server system. A network of ten thousand addresses is quietly carrying a piece of the internet's naming foundation.
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
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 2001:504:0:2:0:1:886:1 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 20 downstream and 47 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 9 prefixes · 10.24K addresses IPv6 9 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 18 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10886- Registry name
- MAX-GIGAPOP
- Registrant
- University of Maryland
- Abuse contact
- abuse@umd.edu
- Registered
- 1997-12-17
- Last changed
- 2025-04-22
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX)
- Also known as
- MAX Gigapop
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS10886:AS-ALL- Facilities
- 4 facilities
- Website
- http://www.maxgigapop.net
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 38% valid · 5 valid, 8 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 5 authorising AS10886
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 13 of 13 announcements
- Route objects
- 20 naming AS10886
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 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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