Autonomous system
AS6248 DEKA-R-D - DEKA Research & Development Corp
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
DEKA Research & Development Corp
enterprise legacy
DEKA-R-D — the network of DEKA Research & Development Corp, the Manchester, New Hampshire engineering firm founded by inventor Dean Kamen.
What it's used for
- Corporate networking for DEKA's engineering and product-development work.
- Announces a single
/24(158.51.177.0/24), a direct ARIN allocation to the company.
Notable
- A small enterprise ASN: 256 addresses, one prefix, used by the company itself rather than sold to customers.
- The low number is not early-internet history — DEKA's ARIN organisation record and the ASN registration are both from 2019/2020, so this number was reclaimed and reissued to a modern holder.
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
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6248- Registry name
- DEKA-R-D
- Registrant
- DEKA Research & Development Corp
- Abuse contact
- internetdept@dekaresearch.com
- Registered
- 2020-01-22
- Last changed
- 2020-01-22
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS6248
- ASPA
- 2 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS6248
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: 453 networks and 1,846 prefixes, as published 2026-11-12. 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