AS8346 SONATEL SONATEL-AS Autonomous System

SONATEL-AS — Societe Nationale des Telecommunications du Senegal, the Senegalese

incumbent operator, based in Dakar and part of the Orange group. This is the main

Sonatel autonomous system.

What it's used for

• Fixed and mobile internet access for Sonatel's customers in Senegal, plus transit for the group's regional operations. The address space is AFRINIC Senegal registrations (41.82, 41.83, 154.124, 154.125, 196.207 and neighbours), and what rDNS exists sits under orange-sonatel.com.

Notable

• A national incumbent's eyeball network: a few hundred thousand IPv4 addresses originated from a single AS, with many BGP neighbours reflecting Sonatel's role as a West African landing point and transit provider.
• rDNS coverage is sparse — typical for the region — so the prefix registrations rather than reverse names are the reliable signal here.

Interesting

• The RIPE aut-num for AS8346 is one of the pre-database objects (a placeholder registration date), while the addresses themselves live in AFRINIC. The split is a relic of Senegal connecting before AFRINIC existed.