AS6099 BAE-NET-ASN

BAE-NET-ASN belongs to the Alameda County Office of Education (ACOE) in California — despite the handle, this has nothing to do with the defence contractor BAE Systems. ACOE is the county education agency for Alameda County in the San Francisco Bay Area.

What it's used for

• A regional K-12 education network: internet connectivity and shared services for school districts and schools across Alameda County, alongside ACOE's own programs and administration.
• It originates a large footprint for an education agency — including the full 207.163.0.0/16 (registered as ALAMEDA-BLK2) and 206.110.0.0/16 — because the addressing is pooled across many member districts rather than one campus.

Notable

• Education addressing, but county-level and K-12 rather than a university. The clients behind these IPs are school networks, classroom devices and district administrative systems.
• County offices of education acting as regional network aggregators is a distinctly Californian pattern, and it explains why a county agency holds two class-B blocks.

Interesting

• The BAE- handle is a genuine name trap: it reads like an aerospace firm and resolves to a school system.
• ARIN dates the AS number to November 1995, part of a sequential run of real mid-1990s allocations.