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Autonomous system

AS56479 HCT-AS

Unclassified RIPE

IPv4 addresses 18.18K 7 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 0 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly AE
Exchanges 0 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 1 0 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

Higher Colleges of Technology

United Arab Emirates · AI-generated

education business uae

HCT-AS is operated by Higher Colleges of Technology.

What it's used for

  • The address space carries institutional traffic for the UAE's largest applied higher educational institution, with netnames HCT-NET and HCTIN-EMIRNET identifying the network segments.
  • The AS announces 18,176 IPv4 addresses across 7 prefixes while maintaining only 1 observed neighbour, a ratio indicative of an internal corporate or institutional estate rather than a transit or access provider.
  • Traffic from this AS consists of staff, students, and administrative endpoints connecting to the internet from HCT's facilities throughout the United Arab Emirates.

Notable

  • Registrants align with the announcer, showing HCT Abuse Role for the 31.29.64.0/21, 31.29.72.0/21, and 31.29.80.0/20 blocks, and ETISALAT Abuse Handling for the 194.170.32.0/19 and 195.229.175.0/24 blocks.
  • The inventory is split between two distinct netnames, with the HCTIN-EMIRNET blocks registered to Etisalat, suggesting a historical or ongoing relationship with the national telecommunications provider for specific address ranges.
  • The address inventory is finely subdivided into seven prefixes, consistent with site-by-site segmentation for a multi-campus educational institution.

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

Interconnection

Peering at a glance

Full topology · Graph

Internet exchanges

No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.

Transit providers

1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS5384EMIRATES TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP COMPANY (ETISALAT GROUP) PJSC189

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.

Address space

Summary

Shape and geography

IPv4 7 prefixes · 18.18K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
AEUnited Arab Emirates7

Registry

Allocation record

RIPE · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
RIPE
Handle
AS56479
Registry name
HCT-AS
Registrant
Higher Colleges of Technology
Abuse contact
network.support@hct.ac.ae
Registered
2011-03-01
Last changed
2018-09-04
Allocation
allocated

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
80% valid · 8 valid, 2 with no ROA
ROAs
8 authorising AS56479
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
90% registered · 9 of 10 announcements 1 other origin
Route objects
8 naming AS56479

Reputation

Classification and threat

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

Spamhaus DROP

Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.

No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.

Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.

FBI IC3

No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.

IC3 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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