Autonomous System (AS)

• Identified by ‘AS number’

  • example: AS16907 (ISPKenya)

• Examples:

  • Service provider
  • Multi-homed customers
  • Anyone needing policy discrimination for networks with different routing policies

• Single-homed network (one upstream provider) does not need an AS number

  • Treated like part of upstream AS

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