Autonomous system
AS3208 ARN
Education AFRINIC
Summary
Algerian Academic Research Network (ARN)
education research nren legacy
ARN — the Algerian Academic Research Network, Algeria's national research and education network (NREN), funded by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.
What it's used for
- Connecting Algeria's universities, research centres, and higher schools — around a hundred institutions — to each other and to the global research internet.
- A national MPLS backbone built across several points of presence, riding on Algérie Télécom's fibre infrastructure.
- International links to GÉANT, the pan-European research network, and to ASREN, the Arab States research network, alongside commodity internet transit.
Notable
- NREN address space is institutional and academic. Traffic from it is students, faculty, campus systems, and research workloads — not consumers, and not hosting tenants.
- ARN has been operated since 1994 by CERIST, Algeria's research centre for scientific and technical information, making it one of the longer-running academic networks on the African continent.
Interesting
- Research networks exist because ordinary commercial transit is a poor fit for science: a single physics or genomics dataset can dwarf a university's entire month of normal traffic, and NRENs give those flows a dedicated path to peer institutions abroad.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 8.19K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DZ | Algeria | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS3208- Registry name
- ORG-AARN1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Algerian Academic Research Network
- Registered
- 2021-11-19
- Last changed
- 2022-07-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS3208
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS3208
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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