Autonomous system
AS7020 QDATA-AS
Unclassified
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](https://asn.ipinfo.app/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.
Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 65 |
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