Local Loop

AS37105 (NEOLOGY-AS) recently appeared in the BGP routing tables, announcing two /24 prefixes, with transit via Imperial Online.

This is what Roelf Diedericks of Neology had to say about it:

Neology supplies IAP services to ISP’s in the local market, this includes radius, billing and RealSoon(tm), ADSL IPConnect termination for multiple ISP’s.

We will be offering the first consumer ADSL service with differentiated local, versus international radius accounting, and many other cunning differentiated traffic billing plans which cannot as yet be revealed :)

Simply awaiting Telkom to do their bits at the moment.

So, while their AS is new to the routing tables, Neology is certainly not new to the local telecoms business.

It’s good to see someone has solved the (non-trivial) problem of accounting national and international traffic separately… this is something that IS wasn’t willing (or able) to do even when their customers specifically asked them for it on IS Labs.