AS11866 EL-MALVERN-PA

EL-MALVERN-PA is Ellucian Company LP, and the handle is a site code: the ARIN record gives an address at 4 Country View Road, Malvern, Pennsylvania. Ellucian sells administrative software to colleges and universities, the student-information and ERP systems they run their registrations and finances on.

What it's used for

Ellucian's own network. RIS observes five IPv4 prefixes, all /24s in 149.24.0.0, totalling 1,280 addresses, no IPv6, and four observed BGP neighbours. That is a modest multihomed corporate edge, not a provider: a few upstreams and a few /24s cannot serve customers as a network, whatever the company sells as software.

All five prefixes are registered in ARIN as ELLUCIAN-NET to Ellucian Company LP. Announcer and registrant are the same org on every block, with no cross-RIR scatter and no third-party names, so the prefix-registrant check clears.

Notable

The name is the point of interest. Ellucian's entire customer base is higher education, and its handle sits in a range full of genuine campus networks, so it is easy to file this AS as education. It is not. The rule is to classify by what the space carries and who holds it, not by whom the holder sells to. Ellucian is a private software vendor; the network is a vendor's corporate and service infrastructure, and a university-facing product does not make a university network.

Ten addresses were sampled for reverse DNS and none answered. That is a sample of ten out of 1,280, and no inference is drawn from it.