Autonomous system
AS3464 ASC-NET
Education ARIN
Summary
Alabama Supercomputer Authority
education research legacy
ASC-NET is the Alabama Supercomputer Authority (ASA), a state agency created by the Alabama Legislature in 1989 that operates the Alabama Research and Education Network (AREN) and the state's supercomputing facilities.
What it's used for
- Backbone connectivity for AREN, Alabama's statewide research and education network: public K-12 school districts, community colleges, universities, public libraries, and selected state agencies.
- High-performance computing services for faculty, staff, and students at Alabama's public institutions.
Notable
- An institutional, not commercial, network. The address space serves member schools and campuses across the state rather than paying retail subscribers, which is why the IPv4 footprint (a couple hundred thousand addresses) is large relative to the size of the organization itself.
- Registered with ARIN in 1994, consistent with the era when US state education networks were building out their own connectivity.
Interesting
- ASA has served as the AREN consortium lead for the federal E-Rate program since 1998, covering most of Alabama's public school districts and a large share of its libraries — so this ASN sits behind a substantial fraction of the state's classroom internet access.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
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 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 101 prefixes · 208K addresses IPv6 32 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 133 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS3464- Registry name
- ASC-NET
- Registrant
- Alabama Supercomputer Authority
- Abuse contact
- swipadmin@asc.edu
- Registered
- 1994-03-04
- Last changed
- 2023-11-30
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 86% valid · 104 valid, 17 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 10 authorising AS3464
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 121 of 121 announcements
- Route objects
- 71 naming AS3464
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: 442 networks and 1,773 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