Autonomous system
AS37497 Network-Platforms
Unclassified AFRINIC NSP
Summary
Network Platforms
transit wholesale infrastructure africa
The AS handle Network-Platforms is held by Network Platforms (PTY) LTD.
What it's used for
- The space carries wholesale connectivity infrastructure, with reverse DNS entries following the pattern
as37497.za.netandas37497.net. - With 6400 IPv4 addresses announced against 1281 observed neighbours, the high neighbour-to-address ratio indicates a transit or wholesale provider role rather than an access network.
Notable
- Registrants for the available prefixes (154.66.176.0/20 and 197.148.64.0/21) align with the announcer, both listed as Network Platforms (PTY) LTD under the netname ORG-NPL3-AFRINIC.
- The address inventory consists of three IPv4 prefixes and one IPv6 prefix, with all announced blocks located in South Africa.
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 9 exchanges in 4 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.193.38 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.25 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.213.88 |
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.8.185 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.70.206 |
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.96.86 |
| NAPAfrica IX Durban | Durban, South Africa | 196.10.141.140 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.22.86 |
Transit providers
23 upstream, 40 downstream and 104 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 2026-10-11, 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 · 6.40K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2012-09-21
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Network Platforms
- Also known as
- Network Platforms
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Africa
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
RADB::AS-NETWORKPLATFORMS- Present at
- 9 exchanges
- Facilities
- 6 facilities
- Website
- http://www.networkplatforms.co.za
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 · 5 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS37497
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 62 naming AS37497
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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