Autonomous system
AS5520 UNI-KOELN
Education RIPE
Summary
Universität zu Köln
education university research legacy
UNI-KOELN is the Universitaet zu Koeln, the University of Cologne, one of Germany's largest and oldest universities. The AS carries the university's campus network.
What it's used for
- Campus networking for students, staff, faculties and the university's computing centre, plus research systems and institutional services.
- Roughly 68,000 IPv4 addresses, the sort of allocation a major German university received before address scarcity set in.
Notable
- This is a university network, not an ISP. The address space serves the institution's own people and machines, and its upstream is the German research and education networking world rather than a commercial carrier.
- German universities were early and generous recipients of address space, which is why a single campus can hold more IPv4 than many commercial providers.
Interesting
- The University of Cologne traces to 1388, making it one of the oldest universities in Central Europe. Its network is a good reminder that a lot of the early European internet was built out of university computing centres.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS5520- Registry name
- UNI-KOELN
- Registrant
- AS5520-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@uni-koeln.de
- Registered
- 2002-02-04
- Last changed
- 2022-07-26
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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