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AS6802 UNICOM-B-AS NREN - Bulgaria

Education RIPE

IPv4 addresses 65.54K 39 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 17 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly BG
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

BREN (Bulgarian Research and Education Network)

Bulgaria · AI-generated

education research nren legacy

UNICOM-B-AS — the **Bulgarian Research and Education Network Association

(BREN)**, Bulgaria's national research and education network (NREN). The RIPE

object describes it simply as "NREN - Bulgaria".

What it's used for

  • National backbone connectivity for Bulgarian universities, research institutes and academic institutions, and their onward connection to the pan-European research network.
  • It announces around 57 IPv4 prefixes, overwhelmingly drawn from the legacy 194.141.0.0/16 Bulgarian academic block, plus IPv6.

Notable

  • Institutional, not commercial: the prefixes are member institutions' campuses. BREN provides transit to its members but is not a general ISP.
  • The UNICOM-B handle is the network's original name from the early Bulgarian academic networking era and has never been changed.

Interesting

  • BREN also supports BGP communities for its transit customers, which is a hint that Bulgarian academic institutions multihome through it much as commercial customers would through a carrier.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.

Address space

Summary

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CountryNamePrefixes
BGBulgaria56

Registry

Allocation record

via RIPE RDAP
Registry
RIPE
Handle
AS6802
Registry name
UNICOM-B-AS
Registrant
AS6802-MNT
Abuse contact
abuse@acad.bg
Registered
1970-01-01
Last changed
2024-07-12
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.

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