Autonomous system
AS37661 NRaE1-AS
Hosting AFRINIC Non-Profit
Summary
NgREN
education research nren nonprofit
The AS handle NRaE1-AS is operated by Nigerian Research and Education Network Limited by Guarantee (NgREN).
What it's used for
- The address space carries university and research network traffic, with registrants including
University of IlorinandNnamdi Azikiwe Universityalongside the main NgREN netnameORG-NRaE1-AFRINIC. - The AS announces 39168 IPv4 addresses across 16 prefixes and maintains 14 observed neighbours, a ratio consistent with a national research and education backbone providing transit and interconnection for member institutions.
- Traffic from this AS consists of academic and research data, supporting the non-profit mission of connecting Nigerian universities and research institutes.
Notable
- Registrants align with the announcer, showing
Nigerian Research and Education Network Limited by Guaranteefor most prefixes, with specific allocations toUniversity of IlorinandNnamdi Azikiwe University. - The inventory is dominated by the 154.68.0.0/16 range, subdivided into multiple /20, /21, /22, /23, and /24 blocks, indicating a finely segmented internal estate for different institutions or sites.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria - Lagos | Lagos, Nigeria | 196.216.148.42 |
| West Africa Interconnection Exchange | Lagos, Nigeria | 196.49.90.37 |
Transit providers
5 upstream, 4 downstream and 9 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 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 16 prefixes · 39.17K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NG | Nigeria | 16 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2013-11-21
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Nigerian Research and Education Network Limited by Guarantee
- Also known as
- NgREN
- Network type
- Non-Profit
- Scope
- Africa
- Traffic ratio
- Heavy Outbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-SET-NGREN- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Website
- http://www.ngren.edu.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, 13 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS37661
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 69% registered · 9 of 13 announcements 4 other origin
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS37661
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: 442 networks and 1,773 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