Autonomous system
AS6481 SWRI
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Southwest Research Institute
research enterprise legacy
SWRI is the network of Southwest Research Institute, a large independent
nonprofit applied research and development organization headquartered in San
Antonio, Texas.
What it's used for
- Campus and laboratory networking for SwRI's San Antonio research campus and its program offices.
- Carries the institute's
129.162.0.0/16legacy Class B, plus an IPv6/48.
Notable
- SwRI is a contract R&D institute rather than a university or a government lab: it performs engineering and science work for government and commercial clients across space science, automotive and fuels, chemistry, and cybersecurity.
- The
129.162.0.0/16block was registered in 1988, well before the ASN itself was assigned in 1996 — the institute was on the network long before it needed its own autonomous system.
Interesting
- SwRI is best known publicly for building and operating spaceflight instruments and leading NASA science missions, so a fair amount of what moves across this network is deep-space mission and instrument data.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6481- Registry name
- SWRI
- Registrant
- Southwest Research Institute
- Abuse contact
- todd.hebert@swri.org
- Registered
- 1996-04-29
- Last changed
- 2025-09-30
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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