Autonomous system
AS2018 TENET-1
Unclassified AFRINIC Educational/Research
Summary
Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa (TENET)
education research legacy
TENET-1 is the Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa (TENET), the country's national research and education network (NREN), which grew out of the earlier UNINET project.
What it's used for
- Connecting South African universities and research institutions to the internet and to each other.
Notable
- A national research-and-education network, not a commercial ISP. It carries a large aggregate of institutional address space on behalf of member campuses.
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 8 exchanges in 3 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.227.126 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.213.145 |
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.8.216 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.71.159 |
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.96.33 |
| NAPAfrica IX Durban | Durban, South Africa | 196.10.141.216 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.22.33 |
| Durban Internet eXchange | Durban, South Africa | 196.223.30.33 |
Transit providers
34 upstream, 7 downstream and 59 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 359 prefixes · 1.15M addresses IPv6 123 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 482 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2001-03-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa
- Also known as
- TENET
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-TERTIARY- Present at
- 8 exchanges
- Website
- https://www.tenet.ac.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
- 54% valid · 210 valid, 181 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 8 authorising AS2018
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 99.2% registered · 388 of 391 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 558 naming AS2018
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 1,781 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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