Autonomous system
AS33763 Paratus
Unclassified AFRINIC NSP
Summary
Paratus Telecommunications
telecom pan-african nsp business
The AS handle Paratus is operated by Paratus Telecommunications Limited.
What it's used for
- The address space carries corporate and enterprise telecommunications infrastructure, evidenced by the consistent netname
ORG-PTL5-AFRINICacross all sampled prefixes. - With 80,384 IPv4 addresses announced against 183 observed neighbours, the ratio indicates a transit or network service provider role rather than a pure access network.
Notable
- All registrants in the evidence pack agree with the announcer, consistently listing Paratus Telecommunications Limited.
- Paratus is a pan-African telecommunications operator with points of presence in over 35 countries, including Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zambia.
- The inventory consists of 66 IPv4 prefixes and 33 IPv6 prefixes, with the largest blocks being /19s in the 160.242.0.0 and 197.234.0.0 ranges.
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 22 exchanges in 14 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.225.214 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.213.214 |
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.8.141 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.70.33 |
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.96.63 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Miami | Miami, United States | 198.32.243.169 |
| Kenya Internet Exchange Point - Nairobi | Nairobi, Kenya | 196.223.21.162 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.22.63 |
Transit providers
25 upstream, 72 downstream and 121 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 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 66 prefixes · 80.38K addresses IPv6 34 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| MU | Mauritius | 100 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS33763- Registry name
- ORG-PTL5-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Paratus Telecommunications Limited
- Registered
- 2023-03-02
- Last changed
- 2024-06-06
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Paratus Africa
- Also known as
- Paratus Africa, Ltd
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS-PARATUS-CUSTOMERS- Present at
- 22 exchanges
- Facilities
- 22 facilities
- Website
- https://www.paratus.africa
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
- 79% valid · 108 valid, 27 with no ROA 1 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 46 authorising AS33763
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 98% registered · 133 of 136 announcements
- Route objects
- 163 naming AS33763
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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