Autonomous system
AS3662 HARNET Joint Universities Computer Centre Limited
Education APNIC
Summary
Joint Universities Computer Centre (JUCC) / HARNET
education research nren
The Hong Kong Academic and Research Network (HARNET), operated by the Joint
Universities Computer Centre (JUCC) — the research and education backbone linking
Hong Kong's government-funded tertiary institutions to each other and the global
internet.
What it's used for
- Connecting the campus networks of Hong Kong's eight publicly funded universities and providing their shared upstream and research connectivity.
Notable
- An IP here is institutional — it belongs to a university on the HARNET backbone (campus, labs, research clusters) — classified
educationrather than commercial hosting.
Interesting
- JUCC was incorporated in 1970 as a cooperative of the computing centres of Hong Kong's tertiary institutions; HARNET runs on a multi-ring optical backbone with data centres at HKU and CUHK.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| HK | Hong Kong | 39 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS3662- Registry name
- HARNET
- Registrant
- Joint Universities Computer Centre Limited
- Abuse contact
- hartech@jucc.edu.hk
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2021-07-09
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
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