Autonomous system
AS3597 Fundacion InnovaT
Education LACNIC
Summary
Fundación InnovaT (InnovaRed)
education research legacy
Fundación InnovaT, based in Buenos Aires, operates InnovaRed — Argentina's national research and education network, connecting universities and research institutions to each other and to the wider academic internet.
What it's used for
- Backbone connectivity for Argentine universities and research institutes.
- International research links, letting Argentine academics reach peer NRENs and research networks abroad.
- Announcing the legacy
168.96.0.0/16block long associated with Argentina's academic and scientific networking.
Notable
- A research and education network (NREN), not a commercial ISP. Its customers are institutions, so the traffic profile is academic rather than consumer.
- Like most NRENs it is comparatively small in address count but strategically central: a lot of a country's university traffic passes through one of these.
Interesting
- National research networks were often a country's first internet connection, which is why so many of them hold AS numbers this far down the range.
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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 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 21 prefixes · 65.79K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AR | Argentina | 21 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- LACNIC
- Handle
AS3597- Registry name
- 3597
- Registrant
- Fundación InnovaT
- Abuse contact
- alejandro.borras@gmail.com
- Registered
- 1994-05-18
- Last changed
- 2021-07-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Fundación InnovaT
- Also known as
- INNOVARED
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS3597:AS-INNIXP- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- https://www.innova-red.net
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 5 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 5 authorising AS3597
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 15 naming AS3597
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: 446 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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