Autonomous system
AS3627 NRAO-AS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
government research legacy
The network of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO-AS), the US
national facility for radio astronomy, funded by the National Science
Foundation.
What it's used for
- Networking for NRAO's observatory sites, science operations, and administrative offices.
- Supporting the movement and processing of radio-telescope data — one of the more bandwidth-hungry corners of scientific computing.
Notable
- Federally funded research space, not commercial or eyeball space. Hosts here belong to observatory staff, instruments, and data systems.
- NRAO operates major instruments including the Very Large Array in New Mexico and the Very Long Baseline Array, and takes part in international projects such as ALMA.
Interesting
- Radio astronomy is an unusually demanding network customer: interferometry correlates signals from widely separated antennas, so the observatory's data problem is fundamentally a transport problem.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS3627- Registry name
- NRAO-AS
- Registrant
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@nrao.edu
- Registered
- 1994-05-24
- Last changed
- 2023-09-24
- 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