Autonomous system
AS10798 SBICSA
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited
enterprise legacy
SBICSA belongs to The Standard Bank of South Africa (Pty) Ltd, the Johannesburg-headquartered bank at the centre of Standard Bank Group and one of Africa's largest financial institutions. RIS sees 83 IPv4 prefixes carrying 21,248 addresses, no IPv6, and 28 observed neighbours.
What it's used for
The bank's own internet edge across its African footprint. Almost the entire announcement set is /24s carved out of 196.8.0.0/16, legacy Southern African space, with a small amount of ARIN legacy space in 166.85.16.0/24 and 166.85.18.0/24. What is routed is bank infrastructure: internet and mobile banking front ends, branch and ATM connectivity, corporate and partner links, mail and remote access. Nothing in the set looks like resold or hosted third-party space.
Notable
28 neighbours is high for an enterprise of 21,000 addresses, and that is the interesting part rather than an anomaly. Standard Bank operates in a long list of African countries where there is no single carrier that can serve them all, so the bank buys local transit country by country and ends up peering with a spread of national incumbents and regional providers. A US enterprise of the same size typically shows two or three neighbours.
Interesting
The handle is an artefact of corporate history: SBIC is Standard Bank Investment Corporation, the name the group carried before it became Standard Bank Group. The routing is also entirely IPv4. For a bank operating across a continent where mobile-first internet growth has been fastest, the absence of any IPv6 announcement is notable.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
30 upstream, 0 downstream and 30 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS13335 | Cloudflare, Inc. | 3,510 |
| AS29614 | Ghana Telecommunications Company Limited | 138 |
| AS30844 | Liquid Telecommunications Ltd | 138 |
| AS20294 | MTN Uganda | 125 |
| AS33763 | Paratus Telecommunications Limited | 124 |
| AS37084 | Simbanet (T) Limited | 120 |
| AS14988 | Botswana Telecommunications Corporation | 104 |
| AS37035 | MIC TANZANIA LTD | 67 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-16, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 55 prefixes · 20.99K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 55 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 1997-12-01
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 83 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS10798
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 83 of 83 announcements
- Route objects
- 63 naming AS10798
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere