AS611

AS611 is registered with ARIN under the handle NECN-1-611 to the NB-PEI Educational Computer Network (NECN), a shared-services consortium that supplies the network backbone for public postsecondary institutions in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, Canada. Administratively the ASN is registered c/o University of New Brunswick Information Technology Services in Fredericton, and its member institutions include UNB, Mount Allison University, St. Thomas University, Université de Moncton, the University of Prince Edward Island, and several community colleges, coordinated under the Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission (MPHEC). ARIN's RDAP record shows a single top-level registration event dated 2018-06-14, which this entry records as the allocated_date, though BGP first-seen data for one of its prefixes dates back to 2000-08-18 and the ASN sits inside ARIN's legacy 1-1876 numbering block — suggesting the 2018 date may reflect a registry re-registration rather than the network's original 1990s-era grant, a discrepancy flagged but not resolved. Routing-wise AS611 is a modest, stable stub network: it announces 46 IPv4 prefixes (roughly 345,000 addresses) and zero IPv6 space, is visible to 325 of 327 RIPE RIS peers, and carries a CAIDA AS rank of 12,665 with three upstream/peer relationships (Bell Canada, EastLink, and the CANARIE research network) and no downstream customers. No PeeringDB record exists for the ASN, and no notable public abuse or security signal was located as of 2026-07-16, though that null result reflects a bounded web-search pass rather than a direct pull of Spamhaus or NANOG archive data.

Operator

NB-PEI Educational Computer Network (NECN-1 / "ECN"), c/o University of New Brunswick ITS, Fredericton, NB [Confirmed] — https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/NECN-1, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/611

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/611

Allocated

2018-06-14 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level "registration" event, 2018-06-14T12:47:57-04:00); last changed 2018-06-14T12:47:59-04:00. Three independent angles (A2, A3, A5) each pulled this same date directly from ARIN RDAP. Caveat: BGP first-seen for the ASN is 2000-08-18 and it sits in ARIN's legacy 1-1876 ASN block, so 2018 likely reflects a registry re-registration rather than the original grant — recorded per rule as the registry's top-level event regardless, not nulled. A third-party aggregator (IPinfo) states "June 14, 2016" for the same day/month, conflicting with ARIN's own record; ARIN RDAP is treated as authoritative and used here.

[Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/611

Website

https://nbpei-ecn.ca/ — identified via consistent search-engine listings and the operator's own self-hosted strategic-plan PDFs, but the site returned HTTP 403 to every automated fetch attempt and could not be directly read [Likely] — https://nbpei-ecn.ca/

Org status

active (ARIN RDAP autnum status = "active") [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/611

Abuse contact

an individual staff mailbox on the unb.ca domain (University of New Brunswick ITS, the ASN's administrative host) rather than a role address such as abuse@; the personal address is not republished here — route reports via UNB ITS

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse/threat signal found as of 2026-07-16 — searched Spamhaus DROP context, community ASN blocklists (e.g. C0nw0nk ASN-BlackList), IPQualityScore, and NANOG archives via web search; none returned AS611-specific hits. This is a bounded web-search null, not a confirmed "clean" verdict

Network & routing

Network type

Regional research-and-education (R&E) network; shared-services consortium for NB/PEI postsecondary institutions [Likely] — https://www.mphec.ca/about/EducationalComputerNetwork.aspx, https://ipinfo.io/AS611

Size / routing

46 distinct IPv4 prefixes announced, roughly 345K IPv4 addresses (RIPEstat: 345,600; CAIDA customer-cone: 345,344; bgpview: 345,085 — sources vary slightly), 0 IPv6 prefixes [Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status, https://api.asrank.caida.org, https://bgpview.io/asn/611

CAIDA AS rank

12,665; AS degree total 3 (0 customer, 0 peer, 3 provider) — stub/leaf network, no downstream customers [Confirmed] — https://api.asrank.caida.org

Peering

no PeeringDB record for AS611 (direct API query returned an empty dataset); third-party BGP observation shows relationships with AS855 (Bell Canada), AS11260 (EastLink), and AS6509 (CANARIE Inc) — sources disagree on which are classified "upstream" vs "peer" [Confirmed re: no PeeringDB record; Likely for the specific relationships] — https://www.peeringdb.com/api/net?asn__in=611, https://bgp.he.net/AS611, https://bgp.tools/as/611

RPKI

Unknown — not queried by the canonical pipeline (RIPEstat rpki-validation requires a --prefix argument, none supplied for this ASN-level run); third-party sources claim valid ROAs on originated prefixes but this was not independently verified against RPKI repositories

[Unknown] — https://bgp.he.net/AS611

Notable usage

backbone for the NB-PEI Educational Computer Network's member institutions — University of New Brunswick, Mount Allison University, St. Thomas University, Université de Moncton, UPEI, New Brunswick Community College, Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick, Maritime College of Forest Technology, and Holland College — coordinated under MPHEC

[Confirmed] — https://www.mphec.ca/about/EducationalComputerNetwork.aspx

BGP visibility / history

first seen 2000-08-18 (192.197.141.0/24), still announcing as of 2026-07-17 (192.207.76.0/24); visible to 325/327 RIPE RIS peers on v4, 0/322 on v6 (no v6 announced) [Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status

Address

c/o UNB ITS, P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, CA [Confirmed] — https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/NECN-1

Analyst note

The canonical fetch's first pull timed out on the RDAP leg (fallback-only data); a re-run with --max-bytes 0 succeeded and supplied the full autnum object used for the allocated_date determination. No files were modified by that re-run.