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Observed topology

AS328471 Hero-Telecoms

Upstreams 7 carry this network
Downstreams 1 this network carries
Adjacent (IPv4) 8
Adjacent (IPv6) 5

Transit

Upstream networks

inferred

Networks observed carrying traffic for AS328471: the AS immediately before it in a routing path. Ranked by how many paths showed the relationship, which reflects how widely it is used, not how much traffic crosses it.

ASNetworkTypeFamiliesPaths seen
AS36994VodacomMobileIPv4 IPv67,286
AS6939Hurricane Electric LLCTransitIPv4 IPv62,233
AS30844Liquid Telecommunications LtdUnclassifiedIPv4 IPv61,550
AS37271Workonline Communications(Pty) LtdUnclassifiedIPv4888
AS24482SG.GSHostingIPv4 IPv6219
AS3741Dimension DataUnclassifiedIPv4191
AS37721Virtual Technologies & SolutionsResidentialIPv4191

Inferred from path position, not from any declaration by either party. A network appearing here is carrying these routes; whether that is a paid transit arrangement, a backup, or something else is not something routing data can tell you.

Transit

Downstream networks

inferred

Networks for which AS328471 was observed as the last hop before the origin, meaning it appears to provide them transit.

ASNetworkTypeFamiliesPaths seen
AS329300HEROTEL BUSINESS (PTY) LTDUnclassifiedIPv4 IPv6161

Adjacency

Adjacent networks

13 shown

Every AS seen directly next to AS328471 in a routing path, in either direction.

ASNetworkTypeFamiliesPaths seen
AS36994VodacomMobileIPv4 IPv67,345
AS6939Hurricane Electric LLCTransitIPv4 IPv62,288
AS30844Liquid Telecommunications LtdUnclassifiedIPv4 IPv61,571
AS37271Workonline Communications(Pty) LtdUnclassifiedIPv4907
AS24482SG.GSHostingIPv4 IPv6222
AS3741Dimension DataUnclassifiedIPv4193
AS37721Virtual Technologies & SolutionsResidentialIPv4193
AS329300HEROTEL BUSINESS (PTY) LTDUnclassifiedIPv4 IPv6161

Adjacency is not the same as peering. Being next to each other in a path covers paid transit, settlement-free peering and customer connections alike, and routing data cannot distinguish them. Treat this as "these networks exchange routes", nothing more specific.

Interconnection

Exchange presence

recorded

Internet exchanges where Packet Clearing House has a port recorded for AS328471, largest fabric first. An exchange is shared switching where networks interconnect directly rather than paying a transit provider to carry traffic between them, so turning up at one is a deliberate choice about how this network wants to be reached. Each name opens that exchange's own page, with its peering LANs and every other network recorded on it. Recorded at 6 exchanges across 1 country and 1 region.

ExchangeLocationTheir addressMember ports
NAPAfrica IX JohannesburgJohannesburg, South Africa196.60.10.26603
NAPAfrica IX Cape TownCape Town, South Africa196.60.71.7311
Johannesburg Internet ExchangeJohannesburg, South Africa196.60.97.67212
NAPAfrica IX DurbanDurban, South Africa196.10.141.32146
Cape Town Internet ExchangeCape Town, South Africa196.223.22.67121
Durban Internet eXchangeDurban, South Africa196.223.30.67106

Unlike the tables above, this is recorded rather than inferred. An address on a peering LAN is at that exchange by definition. Two carve-outs all the same. Member ports counts every participant at the exchange, not this network's ports, so read it as a size proxy. And an absent exchange means PCH has no record of it, not that the network is not there.

Provenance

Where this comes from

Derived from routing tables collected at 2026-08-08 10:00 UTC by route-views2,rrc00, as seen from 75 BGP vantage points across 74.02M route entries. These are observations from those vantage points, not a complete or authoritative view of the internet.

Cross-check against RIPEstat or BGP.tools, which observe from a different and larger set of vantage points.

Exchange presence comes from a separate dataset: the directory collected 2026-08-09 by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data), covering 1,327 exchanges and 93,164 recorded member ports, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

PeeringDB is the better-known directory and is deliberately not the source here: its acceptable-use policy forbids the bulk storage this needs. The two answer different questions anyway. PeeringDB reports what an operator declares about itself; this reports what PCH has recorded.