AS7950 HC-AS

HC-AS is the Autonomous System of Holland College, the public community

college of Prince Edward Island, based in Charlottetown. It carries the college's

campus network.

What it's used for

• Campus internet access for Holland College students, staff and labs across its PEI campuses and training centres.
• The college's own public-facing services (its hollandc.pe.ca and hollandcollege.com presence, learning systems, administration).
• Multihoming to regional Canadian upstreams rather than a single provider.

Notable

• The AS announces 142.87.0.0/16 — a full legacy Class B, registered to the college in 1993, back when a /16 was the standard unit handed to an institution. That is a very large allocation relative to the size of the school today, which is typical of pre-CIDR education blocks.
• The address space is institutional, not eyeball: addresses here belong to campus machines, Wi-Fi and lab networks, not to home broadband subscribers. Traffic from this AS is best read as "someone on a college network".

Interesting

• Holland College is a college rather than a research university, which makes an ARIN Class B and an early AS number a slightly unusual pairing. Both are artifacts of how generously address space was assigned in the early 1990s, not a measure of network size.