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Autonomous system

AS55824 NKN-CORE-NW NKN Core Network

Unclassified APNIC

IPv4 addresses 82.43K 155 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 329 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly IN
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

National Knowledge Network (NKN)

India · AI-generated

isp research backbone

National Knowledge Network (NKN) is India's government-run research and

education network, providing a high-speed backbone that connects universities,

research institutes, and public institutions. It is managed by the National

Informatics Centre.

What it's used for

  • Backbone connectivity for Indian academic, research, and government institutions, not a consumer mobile carrier.

Notable

  • This is a national research and education network (NREN), not a commercial eyeball ISP; its addresses front institutions rather than mobile handsets.
  • Peers with global research networks such as GEANT, Internet2, and other NRENs.

Interesting

  • NKN links well over a thousand institutions across India on a multi-gigabit core, serving research and education rather than the general public.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.

Address space

Summary

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CountryNamePrefixes
INIndia484

Registry

Allocation record

via APNIC RDAP
Registry
APNIC
Handle
AS55824
Registry name
NKN-CORE-NW
Registrant
National Knowledge Network
Abuse contact
abuseteam@nkn.in
Registered
2010-10-19
Last changed
2026-07-10
Status
active

Reputation

Classification and threat

Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.

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.

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