Autonomous system
AS40581 AREON-AS
Education APNIC Educational/Research
Summary
Arkansas Research and Education Optical Network (AREON)
education research nren
AREON is Arkansas's statewide research-and-education optical network, interconnecting the state's universities and research institutions and linking them to the national research internet.
What it's used for
- Providing high-capacity backbone connectivity among Arkansas higher-education and research institutions, and onward to national R&E networks.
Notable
- An IP here is institutional research-and-education infrastructure — a state R&E backbone above individual campuses, classified
educationrather than commercial hosting.
Interesting
- It is the Arkansas regional peer of the broader U.S. research-and-education network fabric, in the mold of national NRENs like Internet2.
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
Recorded at 3 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Dallas | Dallas, United States | 206.223.118.175 |
| DE-CIX Dallas | Dallas, United States | 206.53.202.7 |
| Kansas City Internet Exchange | Kansas City, United States | 206.51.7.137 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 22 prefixes · 73.48K addresses IPv6 39 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 61 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS40581- Registry name
- AREON-AS
- Registrant
- Arkansas Research and Education Optical Network
- Abuse contact
- as40581@areon.net
- Registered
- 2008-02-05
- Last changed
- 2024-01-10
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Arkansas Research and Education Optical Network (AREON)
- Also known as
- AREON
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-40581-INET- Present at
- 4 exchanges
- Facilities
- 6 facilities
- Website
- http://www.areon.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
- 63% valid · 12 valid, 7 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 11 authorising AS40581
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 19 of 19 announcements
- Route objects
- 34 naming AS40581
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: 436 networks and 1,771 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