AS8286 ACI-EDU-AS ZUT ACI Educational AS

ACI-EDU-AS is the Akademickie Centrum Informatyki (Academic Computer Centre)

of the Zachodniopomorski Uniwersytet Technologiczny w Szczecinie — the West

Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin. The centre runs the university's

network and the wider Szczecin academic metropolitan area network (MAN).

What it's used for

• Campus networking for ZUT: staff and student wired and wireless access, lab and research systems, and university services.
• Serving the Szczecin academic community more broadly. Reverse DNS across the space resolves to zut.edu.pl, univ.szczecin.pl and man.szczecin.pl, so the AS carries several Szczecin institutions, not just the technical university.
• Uplink into Poland's national research backbone: hostnames such as bgplu-szczecin.pionier.10gb.man.szczecin.pl show the MAN's PIONIER connection.

Notable

• An academic network, so addresses here belong to universities and their users rather than to a commercial ISP. Wireless pools carry eduroam in the reverse name, the international academic roaming service.
• The inventory is modest and institutional: a few large blocks including 212.14.0.0/19 and 82.145.64.0/19, plus IPv6, rather than scattered /24s.
• Polish academic MANs like this one historically doubled as regional internet providers before the commercial market matured, which is why they hold sizeable classful-era address space.