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Autonomous system

AS559 SWITCH Switch, Swiss Academic and Research Network

Unclassified RIPE

IPv4 addresses 2.18M 106 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 8 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly CH
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

SWITCH (Swiss Academic and Research Network)

Switzerland · AI-generated

education research legacy

SWITCH, the Swiss national academic and research network (NREN) connecting the

country's universities and research institutions.

What it's used for

  • Backbone and internet connectivity for Swiss universities, colleges, and research organizations, plus related services.

Notable

  • A national research and education network, not a commercial ISP.
  • The low AS number reflects an early-internet allocation, handed out roughly sequentially in the internet's first years.

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

Full explorer
CountryNamePrefixes
CHSwitzerland114

Registry

Allocation record

via RIPE RDAP
Registry
RIPE
Handle
AS559
Registry name
Switch
Registrant
SWITCH
Abuse contact
abuse@switch.ch
Registered
2002-09-04
Last changed
2026-04-20
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.

Elsewhere

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