Autonomous system
AS5713 SAIX-NET
Unclassified
IPv4 addresses
1.49M
172 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes
31
counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries
1
mostly ZA
Flagged prefixes
0
none
Summary
Telkom SA Ltd. (SAIX)
isp transit legacy
Telkom SA's Internet backbone, historically branded SAIX, under the handle
SAIX-NET. It is one of the oldest and largest networks in Southern Africa.
What it's used for
- Carries Telkom's own consumer Internet subscribers: reverse DNS across the space resolves to
telkomadsl.co.zaDSL customer names. - Acts as upstream transit for other South African networks, including Telkom's own sibling ASNs, and peers very widely.
- Originates several hundred prefixes drawn mostly from the
197.xand165.xranges.
Notable
- SAIX stands for "South African Internet Exchange", but despite the name it was never an exchange point: it was and is a transit ISP run by Telkom. The inventory (eyeball DSL customers plus downstream transit) is the honest description, not the branding.
- Telkom operates a family of ASNs; this one is the Internet-facing backbone. See [AS5734](https://asn.ipinfo.app/AS5734) for the sibling network carrying Telkom's hosting and network-management address space.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 203 |
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere