AS5479 UNI-VILNIUS University Network in Vilnius

UNI-VILNIUS is the Vilnius university-network segment of LITNET, Lithuania's

national research and education network. The resources are registered to *Kaunas

University of Technology* (KTU), which holds the LITNET LIR and runs its network

operations centre.

What it's used for

• Campus and inter-institution connectivity for Lithuanian universities, research institutes, and schools attached to the Vilnius region of LITNET.
• Research and education traffic, including the onward path to the pan-European GÉANT network that LITNET belongs to.

Notable

• The handle and the registrant do not match, and that is not an error: LITNET is run jointly through technical centres at several Lithuanian universities (including Vilnius University, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vytautas Magnus University, Klaipėda University, and KTU), with KTU acting as the administering institution for the registry objects.
• LITNET dates to 1991 and serves well over a thousand institutions, which is why its address space behaves like an NREN rather than a single campus.

Interesting

• Reading the descr alone ("University Network in Vilnius") suggests a Vilnius organisation; the actual RIPE organisation object is in Kaunas. It is a good reminder that an AS handle records a network, not necessarily the city of the body that registers it.