Autonomous system
AS3671 SLAC
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
government research legacy
SLAC is the network of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park,
California — a US Department of Energy national laboratory operated by Stanford
University.
What it's used for
- Research networking for SLAC's particle physics, photon science, and computing programs.
- Moving experimental data: accelerator and light-source facilities generate very large datasets that must be shipped to collaborators and compute sites.
Notable
- National-lab address space is scientific infrastructure — instruments, compute clusters, and data movers — not consumer or commercial hosting.
- SLAC has long been a heavy user of research networking, and its traffic profile looks unlike a normal enterprise: few endpoints, enormous flows.
Interesting
- SLAC ran one of the earliest web servers outside Europe, standing up the first web server in North America in 1991 after contact with CERN.
- A low AS number here reflects how early the DOE laboratory system connected to the internet, well ahead of most commercial networks.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS3671- Registry name
- SLAC
- Registrant
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Abuse contact
- security@slac.stanford.edu
- Registered
- 1994-06-10
- Last changed
- 2012-04-02
- 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