AS10798 — The Standard Bank of South Africa (Proprietary) Limited - The Standard Bank of South Africa (Proprietary) Limited

AS10798 announces 55 IPv4 prefixes covering 20,992 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

SBICSA belongs to The Standard Bank of South Africa (Pty) Ltd, the Johannesburg-headquartered bank at the centre of Standard Bank Group and one of Africa's largest financial institutions. RIS sees 83 IPv4 prefixes carrying 21,248 addresses, no IPv6, and 28 observed neighbours.

What it's used for

The bank's own internet edge across its African footprint. Almost the entire announcement set is /24s carved out of 196.8.0.0/16, legacy Southern African space, with a small amount of ARIN legacy space in 166.85.16.0/24 and 166.85.18.0/24. What is routed is bank infrastructure: internet and mobile banking front ends, branch and ATM connectivity, corporate and partner links, mail and remote access. Nothing in the set looks like resold or hosted third-party space.

Notable

28 neighbours is high for an enterprise of 21,000 addresses, and that is the interesting part rather than an anomaly. Standard Bank operates in a long list of African countries where there is no single carrier that can serve them all, so the bank buys local transit country by country and ends up peering with a spread of national incumbents and regional providers. A US enterprise of the same size typically shows two or three neighbours.

Interesting

The handle is an artefact of corporate history: SBIC is Standard Bank Investment Corporation, the name the group carried before it became Standard Bank Group. The routing is also entirely IPv4. For a bank operating across a continent where mobile-first internet growth has been fastest, the absence of any IPv6 announcement is notable.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 166.85.5.0/24
• 166.85.16.0/23
• 166.85.18.0/24
• 196.8.6.0/24
• 196.8.11.0/24
• 196.8.12.0/24
• 196.8.26.0/24
• 196.8.37.0/24
• 196.8.38.0/24
• 196.8.85.0/24
• 196.8.86.0/23
• 196.8.88.0/23
• 196.8.90.0/24
• 196.8.94.0/23
• 196.8.97.0/24
• 196.8.99.0/24
• 196.8.100.0/22
• 196.8.104.0/22
• 196.8.108.0/23
• 196.8.110.0/24
• 196.8.112.0/24
• 196.8.114.0/23
• 196.8.119.0/24
• 196.8.123.0/24
• 196.8.124.0/23
• 196.8.126.0/24
• 196.8.128.0/22
• 196.8.132.0/24
• 196.8.136.0/24
• 196.8.141.0/24
• 196.8.142.0/23
• 196.8.145.0/24
• 196.8.147.0/24
• 196.8.152.0/24
• 196.8.154.0/24
• 196.8.161.0/24
• 196.8.168.0/23
• 196.8.178.0/23
• 196.8.202.0/23
• 196.8.204.0/24
• 196.8.206.0/23
• 196.8.208.0/24
• 196.8.210.0/23
• 196.8.212.0/24
• 196.8.214.0/23
• 196.8.216.0/22
• 196.8.221.0/24
• 196.8.222.0/24
• 196.8.226.0/23
• 196.8.229.0/24
• 196.8.231.0/24
• 196.8.233.0/24
• 196.8.237.0/24
• 196.8.238.0/24
• 196.8.245.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS30844 Liquid Telecommunications Ltd
• AS20294 MTN Uganda
• AS33763 Paratus Telecommunications Limited
• AS37084 Simbanet (T) Limited
• AS14988 Botswana Telecommunications Corporation
• AS37282 Main one Cable Company Nigeria Limited
• AS29614 Ghana Telecommunications Company Limited
• AS37035 MIC TANZANIA LTD
• AS36974 MTN COTE D'IVOIRE S.A
• AS37061 Safaricom Limited
• AS33567 Econet Telecom Lesotho (PTY) LTD
• AS19711 SWAZILAND PTC
• AS25139 Comunicacoes Multimedia, Lda
• AS37440 Airtel Malawi Ltd
• AS37057 Vodacom Lesotho (Pty) Ltd
• AS37223 Vodacom Mocambique S.A
• AS30986 Scancom Limited
• AS30999 EMTEL LIMITED
• AS37187 Inq. Digital Limited
• AS29571 Orange Côte d'Ivoire
• AS3741 Dimension Data
• AS37119 UNITEL SA
• AS328436 Flashnet Technologies Limited
• AS17400 MSTelcom-Mercury Servicos de Telecomunicacoes, S.A.R.L

Adjacent networks

• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS30844 Liquid Telecommunications Ltd
• AS20294 MTN Uganda
• AS33763 Paratus Telecommunications Limited
• AS37084 Simbanet (T) Limited
• AS14988 Botswana Telecommunications Corporation
• AS37282 Main one Cable Company Nigeria Limited
• AS29614 Ghana Telecommunications Company Limited
• AS36974 MTN COTE D'IVOIRE S.A
• AS37035 MIC TANZANIA LTD
• AS37061 Safaricom Limited
• AS25139 Comunicacoes Multimedia, Lda
• AS19711 SWAZILAND PTC
• AS33567 Econet Telecom Lesotho (PTY) LTD
• AS37440 Airtel Malawi Ltd
• AS37223 Vodacom Mocambique S.A
• AS37057 Vodacom Lesotho (Pty) Ltd
• AS29571 Orange Côte d'Ivoire
• AS30999 EMTEL LIMITED
• AS37187 Inq. Digital Limited
• AS30986 Scancom Limited
• AS3741 Dimension Data
• AS37119 UNITEL SA
• AS328436 Flashnet Technologies Limited
• AS17400 MSTelcom-Mercury Servicos de Telecomunicacoes, S.A.R.L

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 82 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 90% of announcements registered; 106 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-20459-PARENT, AS-25139, AS-30844-LIQUID-CUST, AS-30844-LIQUID-CUST-EXT, AS-30844-LIQUID-EXT, AS-30986_MTN, AS-30999, AS-36937:AS-PEERS, AS-37035, AS-37084-PEERS, AS-37084-PEERS, AS-37662, AS-5713, AS-ADJIB, AS-ADJIB, AS-AIRTEL-NG, AS-ANGOLACABLES-AO, AS-ANGOLACABLES-AO, AS-BCS37273, AS-BCS37273, AS-BOF-BW, AS-CTBC-CUSTOMERS182, AS-DOLPHIN-TRANSIT, AS-DURAND1-CUSTOMER, AS-EMIX.