Autonomous system
AS6325 ILLINOIS-CENTURY
Unclassified ARIN NSP
Summary
Illinois Century Network (ICN)
education research legacy
ILLINOIS-CENTURY is the Illinois Century Network, the State of Illinois' statewide broadband network for public institutions, run by the Illinois Department of Innovation & Technology.
What it's used for
- Internet and intranet connectivity for K-12 school districts, higher-education campuses, public libraries, and state and local government sites across Illinois.
- Backbone transport over the state's open-access institutional fiber network, serving thousands of connected locations.
Notable
- Statewide research-and-education networks like ICN sit between a commercial ISP and a campus network: the addresses belong to the state network, but the users behind them are schools, libraries, and agencies.
- ICN was established by Illinois legislation in the late 1990s; ARIN's record for this AS number dates from 2001, so the low number does not indicate an early-internet allocation.
Interesting
- ICN participates in the national research-and-education community and provides its members access to Internet2, which is why Illinois K-12 traffic can end up on research-network paths.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 3 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.136.22 |
| FD-IX - St. Louis | St. Louis, United States | 206.71.10.9 |
| MidWest-IX - St. Louis | St. Louis, United States | 206.71.10.9 |
Transit providers
6 upstream, 43 downstream and 57 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 157 prefixes · 726K addresses IPv6 4 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 161 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6325- Registry name
- ILLINOIS-CENTURY
- Registrant
- Illinois Century Network
- Abuse contact
- doit.security@illinois.gov
- Registered
- 2001-10-31
- Last changed
- 2015-11-16
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Illinois Century Network
- Also known as
- State of Illinois
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS6325:AS-ICN- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Facilities
- 2 facilities
- Website
- https://icn.illinois.gov/
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 97% valid · 59 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 60 authorising AS6325
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 61 of 61 announcements
- Route objects
- 90 naming AS6325
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: 446 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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