Autonomous system
AS37286 NG-ICT-FORUM
Education AFRINIC Educational/Research
Summary
Nigeria ICT Forum of Partnership Institutions
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A not-for-profit consortium of Nigerian universities and research institutions, also known as the Bandwidth Consortium, that pools connectivity and ICT capacity for its member campuses. Based in Abuja.
What it's used for
- Shared research-and-education networking and bandwidth for member Nigerian higher-education institutions, plus capacity-building activities such as the Nigerian Network Operators Group (ngNOG).
Notable
- An IP here is institutional — serving universities and research bodies collectively — and is classified
educationrather than commercial hosting.
Interesting
- Grew out of a 2004 meeting of Nigerian vice-chancellors and ICT coordinators, seeded with support from the MacArthur Foundation and Carnegie Corporation.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-26, 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 · 1.79K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NG | Nigeria | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS37286- Registry name
- ORG-NIFo1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Nigeria ICT Forum of Partnership Institutions
- Registered
- 2010-12-16
- Last changed
- 2021-02-09
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Nigeria ICT Forum of Partnership Institutions
- Also known as
- Bandwidth Consortium
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- Africa
- Traffic ratio
- Heavy Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-37286_AS-328825- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- http://www.forum.org.ng
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
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 8 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS37286
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 8 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 11 naming AS37286
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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: 445 networks and 1,817 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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