Autonomous system
AS6172 MUSD-INTERNET
Education ARIN
IPv4 addresses
32.77K
1 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes
0
counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries
1
mostly US
Flagged prefixes
0
none
Summary
Mesa Public Schools
education legacy
MUSD-INTERNET belongs to Mesa Public Schools, the K-12 public school district serving Mesa, Arizona, and one of the largest districts in the state.
What it's used for
- Internet connectivity for district schools and administrative sites: classroom networks, student devices, and district services.
- About 32k IPv4 addresses, a footprint that matches a district running its own routed network across many campuses rather than buying managed service.
Notable
- An institutional education address, not a residential one. Traffic here originates from school buildings during the school day, which gives the space a distinctly bursty weekday profile.
- ARIN registered this ASN to the district in 2014, so the low number is a reassignment. There is no early-internet lineage behind it.
Interesting
- Large US school districts are a quietly significant class of AS operator. Federal E-Rate funding makes running real network infrastructure affordable at a scale that would otherwise be out of reach for a public agency.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6172- Registry name
- MUSD-INTERNET
- Registrant
- Mesa Public Schools
- Abuse contact
- noc@mpsaz.org
- Registered
- 2014-05-27
- Last changed
- 2020-05-08
- 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