Autonomous system
AS4557 SOUTHEAST-TEXAS-GIGAPOP
Education ARIN Educational/Research
Summary
Rice University (Southeast Texas GigaPoP)
education research university legacy
AS4557 (SOUTHEAST-TEXAS-GIGAPOP) is registered to Rice University in Houston and carries the Southeast Texas GigaPoP (SETG), the regional aggregation point that connects research and education institutions across southeastern Texas to national research networks.
What it's used for
Regional research-and-education transit. SETG aggregates member universities, medical institutions and other R&E organisations in the Houston region and hands their traffic off to national and commercial upstreams, alongside Rice's own campus networks.
Notable
- Address space here is institutional, not consumer: campus networks, labs, data centres and the interconnect fabric between member institutions.
- The AS peers widely for a university network, which is typical of a GigaPoP: it exists to be an exchange and aggregation point rather than a single campus edge.
- ARIN records the number to Rice in April 1995, consistent with a mid-1990s allocation from the era when university networks were taking their own AS numbers.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.238.199 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Dallas | Dallas, United States | 206.223.118.20 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 9 prefixes · 4.10K addresses IPv6 14 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 23 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS4557- Registry name
- SOUTHEAST-TEXAS-GIGAPOP
- Registrant
- Rice University
- Abuse contact
- ipadmin@rice.edu
- Registered
- 1995-04-14
- Last changed
- 2013-02-05
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- SETG
- Also known as
- Southeast Texas GigaPOP
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- Regional
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS-SETG- Present at
- 3 exchanges
- Facilities
- 8 facilities
- Website
- https://www.setg.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
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 10 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS4557
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 10 of 10 announcements
- Route objects
- 47 naming AS4557
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: 442 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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