AS37215 — MAREN

Network type: education

AS37215 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 32,768 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The Malawi Research and Education Network (MAREN), Malawi's national research and education network (NREN), recognized by the government through the Ministry of Education.

What it's used for

• Connecting Malawi's universities and research institutions to each other and internationally, plus shared services like hosting, identity federation, and cybersecurity.

Notable

• An IP here is institutional — it belongs to a member university or research body on the national backbone — classified education rather than commercial hosting.

Interesting

• MAREN was established in 2005 by the University of Malawi and Mzuzu University to overcome inter-campus connectivity challenges.

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

Announced prefixes

• 41.70.0.0/17
• 2c0e:7e80::/28
• 2c0f:ea60::/32

Upstream networks

• AS36944 Ubuntunet Alliance For Research and Education Networking

Adjacent networks

• AS36944 Ubuntunet Alliance For Research and Education Networking

Internet exchanges

• Malawi Internet Exchange — Blantyre, Malawi