Autonomous system
AS37280 BCL
Hosting AFRINIC Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Broadbased Communications
isp residential business nigerian
The AS handle BCL is held by Broadbased Communications Limited.
What it's used for
- The address space carries residential and business internet access, consistent with the operator's description as a fiber-based ISP in Lagos.
- The inventory consists of 3 IPv4 prefixes totaling 2048 addresses, with 10 observed routing neighbours. This ratio of address space to peering partners suggests an access or eyeball network rather than a transit provider.
Notable
- All registrants for the announced prefixes are Broad Based Communications Limited, matching the AS holder.
- The address inventory is a single contiguous block within the 41.76.0.0/16 range, subdivided into three prefixes.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria - Lagos | Lagos, Nigeria | 196.216.148.24 |
Transit providers
5 upstream, 0 downstream and 5 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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 2.05K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NG | Nigeria | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2010-11-24
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Broadbased Communications
- Also known as
- BCL
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Africa
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-BROADBASED-TRANSIT- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 4 facilities
- Website
- http://www.broadbased.net
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
- 100% valid · 8 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 9 authorising AS37280
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 8 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 12 naming AS37280
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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