AS8510 Tomsk, Russia

AS8510 belongs to Tomsk State University (TSU), one of Russia's oldest and

largest universities and the historic hub of academic networking in Tomsk, the

Siberian university city. Some datasets label this AS only with a city line; the

holder is the university itself.

What it's used for

• Campus connectivity for TSU: faculties, research institutes, libraries and the university's own servers, announced as a single 92.63.64.0/20.
• Onward connectivity for other academic and scientific organisations in Tomsk that sit behind the university's network operations centre.

Notable

• rDNS is unambiguously institutional: core routers as gw1.bb.coregw.it.tsu.ru, the operations centre as noc.tsu.ru, and hosts belonging to TSU's Research Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (niipmm.tsu.ru). A tomsk.su mail host in the same block is a survivor of the pre-.ru Soviet-era domain.
• Two observed BGP neighbours and a single contiguous /20: a self-contained campus network, with no subscriber pools or dynamic naming of any kind.

Interesting

• Tomsk's academic network was one of the earliest regional internet nodes east of the Urals, which is why a university of this size holds an AS number this low rather than sitting behind a commercial provider.