Interconnection

AS37177 African Network Information Center - (AfriNIC) Ltd - African Network Information Center - (AfriNIC) Ltd

Unclassified AFRINIC Non-Profit

Exchanges 16 16 active

Countries 13 most in South Africa

Regions 1

Largest fabric 218 Johannesburg Internet Exchange

Recorded presence

Internet exchanges

recorded

Internet exchanges where Packet Clearing House has a port recorded for AS37177, largest fabric first. An exchange is shared switching where networks interconnect directly rather than paying a transit provider, so turning up at one is a deliberate choice about how this network wants to be reached. Each name opens that exchange's page, with its peering LANs and everyone else on it.

Africa 16

Exchange	Location	Their address	Policy	Member ports
Johannesburg Internet Exchange	Johannesburg, South Africa	196.60.96.248	Open	218
Kenya Internet Exchange Point - Nairobi	Nairobi, Kenya	196.223.21.121	Open	157
Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria - Lagos	Lagos, Nigeria	196.216.148.198	Open	139
Cape Town Internet Exchange	Cape Town, South Africa	196.223.22.248	Open	127
Durban Internet eXchange	Durban, South Africa	196.223.30.248	Open	104
Uganda Internet Exchange	Kampala, Uganda	196.223.25.5	Open	38
TIX Tanzania - Dar es Salaam	Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	196.223.5.9	Open	32
Rwanda Internet exchange	Kigali, Rwanda	196.223.12.218	Open	29
Mauritius Internet Exchange	Ebene, Mauritius	196.223.0.77	Open	27
Tunisian Internet Exchange Point	Tunis, Tunisia	41.231.21.240	Open	26
Lusaka Internet Exchange Point	Lusaka, Zambia	196.60.94.43	Open	21
Burkina Faso Internet Exchange Point (BFIX) Ouaga	Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso	2001:43f8:b60::20	Open	18
Kinshasa Internet Exchange	Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo	196.223.28.12	Open	18
Harare Internet Exchange Point	Harare, Zimbabwe	196.60.44.19	Open	13
Nelson Mandela Bay Internet Exchange Point	Gqeberha, South Africa	196.60.120.248	Open	9
Douala Internet Exchange	Douala, Cameroon	2001:43fd:c000:d0ae:9139::c4b	Open	7

Recorded rather than inferred: an address on a peering LAN is at that exchange by definition. Member ports counts every participant at the exchange, not this network's ports, so read it as a size proxy. An absent exchange means PCH has no record of it, not that the network is not there. For the operator's own claims, see its PeeringDB record.

From the exchange directory collected 2026-11-03 by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data), covering 1,350 exchanges and 98,003 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.