Autonomous system
AS15964 CAMNET-AS
Hosting APNIC
Summary
CAMTEL
telecom isp infrastructure
Fifty-nine prefixes, and the netnames are either a registry-generated organisation handle or nothing at all.
What it's used for
- A national telecommunications operator. Fifty-nine IPv4 prefixes and five IPv6 prefixes announced from Cameroon, forty-three thousand two hundred and sixty-four addresses, across eleven observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Most readable blocks carry the same netname: an organisation handle generated by the registry, ending in the registry's own name. No descriptive name was ever chosen.
- Several others return unknown for both netname and registrant, and one lookup failed outright, so those details are unknown rather than absent.
- The holder string is the operator's name written twice with a hyphen between, while the AS handle uses a different contraction ending in the word for a network.
- The IPv6 holdings include a
/47and three/48s that sit inside or beside it, plus a/32from an entirely different range. - Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- An organisation handle as a netname is the registry's default when the form is submitted without one. Seeing it repeated across dozens of blocks means the space was allocated in bulk through an interface that did not insist on a description, which is common where one operator holds nearly all of a country's addresses.
- Eleven neighbours for a national operator is few, and it reflects geography: the routes leave the country through a small number of cables.
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 2 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| AMS-IX Lagos | Lagos, Nigeria | 196.60.58.93 |
| Cameroon Internet Exchange Point - Douala | Douala, Cameroon | 196.60.6.159 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 64 prefixes · 44.54K addresses IPv6 7 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CM | Cameroon | 71 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS15964- Registry name
- ORG-IA6-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- CAMTEL
- Registered
- 2007-01-25
- Last changed
- 2025-09-29
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 94% valid · 128 valid, 7 with no ROA 1 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 206 authorising AS15964
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 96% registered · 131 of 136 announcements
- Route objects
- 177 naming AS15964
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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