Autonomous system
AS786 JANET Jisc Services Limited
Education RIPE Educational/Research
Summary
Janet (Jisc)
education research nren legacy
Janet, the United Kingdom's national research-and-education network, operated by Jisc. It provides the backbone connecting UK universities, colleges, and research councils.
What it's used for
- Connecting UK higher and further education institutions and research bodies to each other and to international research networks.
Notable
- An IP here is institutional/research — a national NREN backbone linking member campuses and labs, classified
educationrather than commercial hosting.
Interesting
- A low AS number reflects Janet's long history; it has been the UK's academic network since the 1980s.
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
Recorded at 3 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.15 |
| LINX Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 195.66.244.22 |
| Leeds Internet Exchange | Leeds, United Kingdom | 91.217.231.17 |
Transit providers
20 upstream, 24 downstream and 60 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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 196 prefixes · 6.89M addresses IPv6 7 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 203 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS786- Registry name
- JANET
- Registrant
- JIPS-NOSC
- Abuse contact
- irt@jisc.ac.uk
- Registered
- 2002-09-18
- Last changed
- 2026-10-08
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Janet
- Also known as
- UKERNA, JANET, The JNT Association, Jisc
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-JANETPLUS- Present at
- 4 exchanges
- Facilities
- 5 facilities
- Website
- https://www.jisc.ac.uk/janet
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
- 40% valid · 86 valid, 130 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 121 authorising AS786
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 99.5% registered · 215 of 216 announcements
- Route objects
- 316 naming AS786
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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: 432 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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