Autonomous system
AS30896 Iway-Network-AS
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Afsat Communications
satellite corporate enterprise kenya
The AS handle Iway-Network-AS is held by Afsat Communications Ltd.
What it's used for
- The address space carries corporate and government connectivity, as the operator provides VSAT satellite data network solutions for banks and government organizations in East and Central Africa.
- The inventory consists of 4096 IPv4 addresses across 6 prefixes, with only 2 observed neighbours, indicating a small, self-contained enterprise network rather than a transit or access provider.
Notable
- All RDAP registrants are listed as unknown, which does not contradict the registry holder Afsat Communications Ltd.
- Afsat Communications Ltd is set to merge with Africa Online, a move that strengthens the position of their South African parent company in the Kenyan market.
- The address inventory is a single contiguous block within the 77.220.0.0/16 range, subdivided into six smaller prefixes.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 1 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS327693 | Echotel Pty Ltd | 826 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-17, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 4.10K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KE | Kenya | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS30896- Registry name
- ORG-ACL2-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Afsat Communications Ltd
- Registered
- 2009-09-28
- Last changed
- 2025-10-06
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 14 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS30896
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 14 of 14 announcements
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS30896
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