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Observed topology

AS37179 AFRICAINX

Upstreams 6 carry this network
Downstreams 20 this network carries
Adjacent (IPv4) 24
Adjacent (IPv6) 10

Transit

Upstream networks

inferred

Networks observed carrying traffic for AS37179: 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
AS37100SEACOM LimitedUnclassifiedIPv4 IPv6466
AS6939Hurricane Electric LLCTransitIPv472
AS6774Belgacom International Carrier Services SAUnclassifiedIPv622
AS24482SG.GSHostingIPv4 IPv610
AS3741Dimension DataUnclassifiedIPv49
AS37721Virtual Technologies & SolutionsResidentialIPv49

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 AS37179 was observed as the last hop before the origin, meaning it appears to provide them transit.

ASNetworkTypeFamiliesPaths seen
AS37153Xneelo (Pty) LtdHostingIPv41,774
AS37266Amobia CommunicationsResidentialIPv4 IPv61,313
AS37333Comtel CommunicationsResidentialIPv4 IPv61,046
AS37150Xnet Internet Services (Pty) LtdResidentialIPv4 IPv6377
AS328446Open Access Technologies (Pty) LtdHostingIPv4166
AS328837VTS Connect Pty LtdHostingIPv4150
AS329277e-centric Switch (Proprietary) LimitedUnclassifiedIPv4122
AS328498Enabling ICT Solutions (Pty) LtdUnclassifiedIPv4118
AS37627Equation Business SolutionsResidentialIPv4116
AS327949Hollard InsuranceUnclassifiedIPv461
AS36242Network Foundations LLCUnclassifiedIPv461
AS37413Hymax Talking SolutionsUnclassifiedIPv461
AS11179Aryaka Networks, Inc.HostingIPv461
AS328772Momentum Metropolitan Life LtdUnclassifiedIPv461
AS62044Zscaler Switzerland GmbHBusinessIPv637
AS42473Anexia Cloud Solutions GmbHHostingIPv4 IPv625
AS328313GVSC Communications (SA) (Pty) LtdUnclassifiedIPv421
AS328507Open Link CommunicationsResidentialIPv4 IPv616
AS37399Switch TelecomUnclassifiedIPv413
AS37523AVOXI (PTY) LTDUnclassifiedIPv42

Adjacency

Adjacent networks

34 shown

Every AS seen directly next to AS37179 in a routing path, in either direction.

ASNetworkTypeFamiliesPaths seen
AS37100SEACOM LimitedUnclassifiedIPv4 IPv66,901
AS37153Xneelo (Pty) LtdHostingIPv42,934
AS37266Amobia CommunicationsResidentialIPv4 IPv61,313
AS37333Comtel CommunicationsResidentialIPv4 IPv61,046
AS37150Xnet Internet Services (Pty) LtdResidentialIPv4 IPv6377
AS6939Hurricane Electric LLCTransitIPv4 IPv6253
AS328498Enabling ICT Solutions (Pty) LtdUnclassifiedIPv4179
AS328446Open Access Technologies (Pty) LtdHostingIPv4166
AS6774Belgacom International Carrier Services SAUnclassifiedIPv6153
AS328837VTS Connect Pty LtdHostingIPv4150
AS329277e-centric Switch (Proprietary) LimitedUnclassifiedIPv4122
AS37627Equation Business SolutionsResidentialIPv4116
AS327949Hollard InsuranceUnclassifiedIPv461
AS37413Hymax Talking SolutionsUnclassifiedIPv461
AS36242Network Foundations LLCUnclassifiedIPv461
AS11179Aryaka Networks, Inc.HostingIPv461
AS328772Momentum Metropolitan Life LtdUnclassifiedIPv461
AS3741Dimension DataUnclassifiedIPv445
AS24482SG.GSHostingIPv4 IPv642
AS62044Zscaler Switzerland GmbHBusinessIPv637
AS42473Anexia Cloud Solutions GmbHHostingIPv4 IPv629
AS328313GVSC Communications (SA) (Pty) LtdUnclassifiedIPv421
AS37721Virtual Technologies & SolutionsResidentialIPv420
AS328507Open Link CommunicationsResidentialIPv4 IPv616
AS37399Switch TelecomUnclassifiedIPv413
AS37523AVOXI (PTY) LTDUnclassifiedIPv42

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 AS37179, 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 7 exchanges across 2 countries and 2 regions.

ExchangeLocationTheir addressMember ports
LINX LON1London, United Kingdom195.66.225.137925
NAPAfrica IX JohannesburgJohannesburg, South Africa196.60.8.135603
NAPAfrica IX Cape TownCape Town, South Africa196.60.70.7311
Johannesburg Internet ExchangeJohannesburg, South Africa196.60.96.47212
NAPAfrica IX DurbanDurban, South Africa196.10.141.7146
Cape Town Internet ExchangeCape Town, South Africa196.223.22.47121
Durban Internet eXchangeDurban, South Africa196.223.30.47106

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.