Autonomous system
AS9020 AS9020-FRAUNHOFER-IESE-KL Fraunhofer IESE Institut Experimentelles Software Engineering
Education RIPE
Summary
Fraunhofer IESE (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft)
education research legacy
AS9020-FRAUNHOFER-IESE-KL belongs to the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Germany's largest applied-research organisation, and specifically to the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in Kaiserslautern.
What it's used for
Networking for a research institute. It announces two small prefixes (153.96.133.0/24 and 153.96.134.0/23) with one observed neighbour. Sampled reverse DNS resolves to drNNN.iese.fraunhofer.de, i.e. the institute's own hosts, confirming this is Fraunhofer IESE's site network rather than a provider.
Notable
A tiny, contiguous, single-upstream footprint (~768 addresses) that has been in BGP since at least 2000, consistent with an early academic/research allocation.
Interesting
Fraunhofer IESE is a well-known applied-research centre in software and systems engineering, so the AS carries an R&D campus rather than commercial services.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS9020- Registry name
- AS9020-FRAUNHOFER-IESE-KL
- Registrant
- AS9020-MNT
- Abuse contact
- noc-services@iosb.fraunhofer.de
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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