AS11050 KENT-STATE

KENT-STATE is Kent State University, the public research university in Kent, Ohio. The AS is small and tidy: three /18s (about 49,000 addresses) all carved from the university's 131.123.0.0/16, no IPv6 in the observed routing, and just two BGP neighbours.

What it's used for

This is the campus network — students, faculty, residence halls, administration, libraries, labs and the university's regional campuses across north-east Ohio all sit behind it. A university of Kent State's size holds a legacy /16 from the era when class-B allocations were routine for higher education, and it has never needed more, which is why the entire AS is one contiguous block announced in thirds.

Notable

All three prefixes are registered to the KENT-STATE network handle under the university's own ARIN org, so there is no third-party space, no leasing, and no ambiguity about who operates the network. Two observed neighbours is a very small upstream set, and consistent with a campus that takes commercial transit through, or alongside, Ohio's state research-and-education network rather than peering broadly on its own account.

Interesting

The three announced /18s cover only three-quarters of 131.123.0.0/16 — the first quarter, 131.123.0.0/18, is absent from the observed routing. It may be unrouted, used internally, or simply not visible to the collectors sampled here; the honest conclusion is only that the announced footprint is smaller than the allocation.