Autonomous system
AS15022 ADEPT-
Unclassified AFRINIC Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Adept Internet
isp telecom hosting
An organisation handle sitting in the netname field of all seven blocks.
What it's used for
- An internet provider's network. Seven IPv4 blocks and seventeen IPv6 blocks announced from South Africa, with nineteen observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Every IPv4 block carries the identical netname
ORG-AILC1-AFRINIC. That is the shape of a registry organisation identifier, not of a network name, and it names the registry itself at the end. - The AS handle is
ADEPT-, which stops at a separator with nothing after it. - The holder name ends in two extra letters that look like a branch or site code, and the same string fills both the handle and the name fields.
- The IPv6 announcements include a doubling ladder running
/48,/48,/47,/46,/45,/44,/43,/42out of one parent. - Five of eighteen sampled addresses returned a name, across two different domains.
Interesting
- The doubling ladder is arithmetic rather than intent. It is what a router emits when asked to advertise a range whose size is not a power of two, so read the whole run as one allocation.
- Two domains are in use for reverse names, one ending in the country's own suffix and one not, with customer equipment on the second. A network answering under two domains has usually merged something, or kept a legacy zone alive alongside a newer one.
- Some reverse names carry a device counter and a customer number in separate labels, so the name identifies the line and the equipment on it, not merely the address.
- Nineteen neighbours is a genuinely well connected regional network.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 4 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.8.72 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.71.112 |
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.96.35 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.22.35 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-22, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 7 prefixes · 16.38K addresses IPv6 17 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 24 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS15022- Registry name
- ORG-AILC1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Adept Internet (Pty) Ltd CT
- Registered
- 2005-02-21
- Last changed
- 2024-09-30
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Adept Internet
- Also known as
- Adept ICT
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-ADEPT-ZA- Present at
- 4 exchanges
- Facilities
- 3 facilities
- Website
- http://www.adept.co.za
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 9 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 9 authorising AS15022
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 9 of 9 announcements
- Route objects
- 11 naming AS15022
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 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-23. 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