Autonomous system
AS37288 WACREN
Education AFRINIC
Summary
West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN)
education research nren
The regional research-and-education backbone for West and Central Africa, interconnecting the national research and education networks (NRENs) of some 20 countries. Headquartered in Accra, Ghana.
What it's used for
- Connecting member-country NRENs and their universities and research institutions to each other and to the global research internet.
Notable
- An IP here is institutional research-and-education infrastructure, not commercial hosting — a regional backbone above individual campuses.
Interesting
- WACREN is the West/Central African peer of networks like GÉANT in Europe, linking the region's academic community into global research collaboration.
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 | 196.216.148.79 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| SN | Senegal | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS37288- Registry name
- ORG-WaCA1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- West and Central African Research Network
- Registered
- 2010-12-28
- Last changed
- 2021-06-16
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS37288
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 14 naming AS37288
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: 446 networks and 1,852 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