AS5502 NATO SACLANT Undersea Research Centre

AS5502 is registered to the NATO SACLANT Undersea Research Centre in La Spezia, Italy. The organisation is today NATO's Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), part of the NATO Science and Technology Organisation, and the registry name simply preserves an older title.

What it's used for

• Networking for a NATO scientific research and experimentation facility: staff, laboratories and the systems behind its maritime research programmes.
• A small, single-prefix footprint of 512 addresses, consistent with one institutional site rather than a service provider.

Notable

• This is a government/military address holder. The organisation is an international military-alliance body, not a company, and its space is not sold or resold.
• The registry entry is a stub with a sponsoring LIR, which is how end-user (non-provider) NATO and government assignments typically appear in the RIPE database.

Interesting

• The centre has been at La Spezia since 1959 and has been renamed several times: the SACLANT Anti-Submarine Warfare Centre, then SACLANT Undersea Research Centre, then the NATO Undersea Research Centre, and since 2012 the Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation. The AS name froze at one of those older stages.