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Observed topology

AS37181 AFRINIC-Anycast-RFC-5855

Upstreams 4 carry this network
Downstreams 0 this network carries
Adjacent (IPv4) 4
Adjacent (IPv6) 1

Transit

Upstream networks

inferred

Networks observed carrying traffic for AS37181: 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
AS33764(AfriNIC) Ltd - African Network Information Center - (AfriNIC) LtdUnclassifiedIPv4 IPv688
AS6939Hurricane Electric LLCTransitIPv410
AS37721Virtual Technologies & SolutionsResidentialIPv41
AS328977Wavex Internet Service Provider LTDResidentialIPv41

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 AS37181 was observed as the last hop before the origin, meaning it appears to provide them transit.

No downstream observed. This network does not appear to carry transit for anyone.

Adjacency

Adjacent networks

5 shown

Every AS seen directly next to AS37181 in a routing path, in either direction.

ASNetworkTypeFamiliesPaths seen
AS33764(AfriNIC) Ltd - African Network Information Center - (AfriNIC) LtdUnclassifiedIPv4 IPv688
AS6939Hurricane Electric LLCTransitIPv410
AS37721Virtual Technologies & SolutionsResidentialIPv41
AS328977Wavex Internet Service Provider LTDResidentialIPv41

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 AS37181, 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 15 exchanges across 12 countries and 1 region.

ExchangeLocationTheir addressMember ports
Johannesburg Internet ExchangeJohannesburg, South Africa196.60.96.249212
Kenya Internet Exchange Point - NairobiNairobi, Kenya196.223.21.122150
Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria - LagosLagos, Nigeria196.216.148.199135
Cape Town Internet ExchangeCape Town, South Africa196.223.22.249121
Durban Internet eXchangeDurban, South Africa196.223.30.249106
TIX Tanzania - Dar es SalaamDar es Salaam, Tanzania196.223.5.1037
Uganda Internet ExchangeKampala, Uganda196.223.25.635
Tunisian Internet Exchange PointTunis, Tunisia41.231.21.24126
Mauritius Internet ExchangeEbene, Mauritius196.223.0.8125
Rwanda Internet exchangeKigali, Rwanda196.223.12.21925
Lusaka Internet Exchange PointLusaka, Zambia196.60.94.4421
Burkina Faso Internet Exchange Point (BFIX) OuagaOuagadougou, Burkina Faso2001:43f8:b60::2118
Kinshasa Internet ExchangeKinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo196.223.28.1518
Harare Internet Exchange PointHarare, Zimbabwe196.60.44.2013
Nelson Mandela Bay Internet Exchange PointGqeberha, South Africa196.60.120.24910

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 2026-08-08 by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data), covering 1,327 exchanges and 93,137 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.