AS11039 GWU

GWU belongs to The George Washington University, the private research university in Washington, D.C. It is a straightforward campus network: three IPv4 prefixes totalling about 131,000 addresses, two IPv6 /36s, and roughly 21 observed BGP neighbours.

What it's used for

This is the university's own enterprise and academic network — students, faculty, residence halls, administration, the medical and public-health schools, libraries and research groups all sit behind it. The address footprint is typical of a large US university that received a /16 in the early days of the commercial Internet and has never had to be frugal: 128.164.0.0/16 alone accounts for half the space, with 161.253.0.0/16 announced as two halves. A neighbour count in the low twenties is exactly right for a campus that multi-homes to commercial transit plus regional research and education networks, and it rules out any wholesale or transit role.

Notable

Both blocks are registered to the university itself, under the network handles GWU-GATE and GW-FENCE. Those are internal naming conventions, not separate organisations, and their presence is the useful negative result here: nothing in this AS is leased to or registered by a third party, so the space is unambiguously GW's own.

Interesting

Announcing IPv6 as two discrete /36s out of a 2606:69c0::/32-style allocation, rather than a single aggregate, suggests the v6 deployment is scoped to particular parts of the campus rather than rolled out network-wide.