Autonomous system
AS37688 BCNL1-AS
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Backbone Connectivity Network (Nigeria) Limited
fiber broadband metro niger
BCNL1-AS is operated by Backbone Connectivity Network (Nigeria) Limited.
What it's used for
- The address space carries residential and SME broadband traffic, supported by the netname
ORG-BCNL1-AFRINICand the operator's public description of deploying reliable, cost-effective broadband for homes and offices. - The AS announces 4352 IPv4 addresses across 2 prefixes and maintains 7 observed neighbours, a ratio consistent with a metro fiber access network rather than a transit provider.
- Traffic from this AS consists of subscriber eyeballs and office workers accessing the internet via the company's metro fiber infrastructure, which also provides connectivity and managed services to mobile network operators.
Notable
- The registrant for the largest prefix, 41.242.48.0/20, is
BACKBONE CONNECTIVITY NETWORK (NIGERIA) LIMITED, matching the AS holder. - The address inventory is compact, consisting of a single /20 block and a single /24 block, both located in Nigeria.
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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 2026-10-16, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 4.35K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NG | Nigeria | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2013-07-25
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 17 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS37688
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 17 announcements
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS37688
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: 442 networks and 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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