Autonomous system
AS1853 ACONET ACOnet Backbone
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
ACOnet (Austrian NREN)
education research legacy
ACOnet (ACONET) is Austria's national research and education network, serving
science, research, education, art, and culture. It is operated by the Computer
Center of the University of Vienna.
What it's used for
- A nationwide fibre backbone connecting Austrian universities and research institutions, with high-performance links to the pan-European GÉANT network.
Notable
- A national research and education network (NREN), not a commercial ISP.
Interesting
- Operated by the University of Vienna since 1992, which also runs the Vienna Internet Exchange; a genuinely early allocation rather than a reissued low number.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AT | Austria | 63 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS1853- Registry name
- ACOnet
- Registrant
- ACONET-LIR-MNT
- Abuse contact
- cert@aco.net
- Registered
- 2002-09-19
- Last changed
- 2026-08-05
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere