I compiled my initial list of local ASNs when I started this blog in October last year. Since then we’ve had Altech’s self-provisioning court victory which lead to the potential for many new telecoms operators to compete with the likes of Telkom and Neotel.
Since I’ve just updated the table using a fresh copy of IS’s “local” routing table (minus their African and Malaysian peers), we can check if opening the licensing floodgates has lead to many new South African networks popping up in the BGP table. There are four new ASNs, so the short answer is “not really”. The list follows:
AS35405 (Macquarie Bank)
This is an end user, so not due to regulatory changes. As you can see, they are dual homed (like most of the Banks are), but they’re running their second link in backup-only mode by announcing sub-prefixes on their primary link (similar to my setup for UCT). Datapro is their primary provider and Neotel is backup:
* 87.236.68.0/24 168.209.255.8 0 3741 36937 35405 ?
* 87.236.68.0/23 168.209.255.8 0 3741 11845 35405 ?
* 87.236.69.0/24 168.209.255.8 0 3741 36937 35405 ?
AS37028 (FNBConnect)
This is First National Bank’s new IPConnect-based ADSL service provider and VOIP operator. If I recall correctly, they would need at least an IECS license to do this, but they probably got the happy meal (IECNS+IECS) anyway. They transit through the bank’s original AS:
* 41.183.0.0/16 168.209.255.8 0 3741 17148 37028 i
AS37049 (South African Digital Villages (Pty) Ltd)
This one is a mystery so far. The name sounds like someone who wires up housing or office complexes and sells them bandwidth. They transit through SAIX:
* 41.222.136.0/21 168.209.255.8 0 3741 5713 37049 i
AS37079 (SMMT Online)
Finally, the winner of the Gauteng Online tender to provide connected computer labs for the province’s schools. They transit through Neotel:
* 41.154.0.0/16 168.209.255.8 0 3741 36937 37079 i
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