Autonomous system
AS7020 QDATA-AS
Unclassified AFRINIC NSP
Summary
BCX (Business Connexion Communications)
enterprise legacy
Autonomous System 7020 (QDATA-AS) belongs to Business Connexion Communications — BCX, a South African IT services and managed-network company that has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Telkom SA since 2015.
What it's used for
- Carrying BCX's own network and the managed connectivity, hosting and IT services it runs for South African corporate and public-sector clients.
- Its prefixes come out of South Africa's legacy
196.10.0.0/16and165.233.0.0/16space, and it takes transit from several local carriers including Telkom (AS5713).
Notable
- An enterprise / managed-services network, not a consumer ISP: the address space backs corporate sites and hosted systems, and almost none of it carries reverse DNS at all — a signature of business assignments rather than subscriber pools.
- Registered with AFRINIC, despite the low AS number falling inside a range otherwise dominated by ARIN.
Interesting
- The handle
QDATA-ASis a corporate fossil. BCX descends from Q Data, which merged into Persetel Q Data, was renamed Comparex Holdings, and then merged with Business Connection in 2004 to form Business Connexion. The AS handle outlasted three name changes and an acquisition.
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 4 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.8.118 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.70.23 |
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.97.12 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.22.40 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 65 prefixes · 89.09K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 65 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS7020- Registry name
- ORG-IHL1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Business Connexion Communications
- Registered
- 2005-02-21
- Last changed
- 2024-08-23
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Business Connexion
- Also known as
- BCX
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS-BCX_EXPRESS- Present at
- 4 exchanges
- Facilities
- 2 facilities
- Website
- http://www.bcx.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 · 41 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 12 authorising AS7020
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 41 of 41 announcements
- Route objects
- 41 naming AS7020
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 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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