AS37288 — West and Central African Research Network - West and Central African Research Network

Network type: education

AS37288 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,024 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The regional research-and-education backbone for West and Central Africa, interconnecting the national research and education networks (NRENs) of some 20 countries. Headquartered in Accra, Ghana.

What it's used for

• Connecting member-country NRENs and their universities and research institutions to each other and to the global research internet.

Notable

• An IP here is institutional research-and-education infrastructure, not commercial hosting — a regional backbone above individual campuses.

Interesting

• WACREN is the West/Central African peer of networks like GÉANT in Europe, linking the region's academic community into global research collaboration.

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

Announced prefixes

• 196.216.188.0/22
• 2001:43f8:1d0::/48

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS37613 DOLPHIN TELECOMMUNICATION LIMITED
• AS11537 Internet2
• AS20965 GEANT Vereniging
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions

Downstream networks

• AS37661 Nigerian Research and Education Network Limited by Guarantee
• AS327992 Ghanaian Academic and Research Network
• AS328293 TogoRER - RESEAU D'EDUCATION ET DE RECHERCHE DU TOGO - TogoRER
• AS329574 Sierra Leone Research and Education Network
• AS328702 Agence pour le Developpement du Numérique

Adjacent networks

• AS37613 DOLPHIN TELECOMMUNICATION LIMITED
• AS327992 Ghanaian Academic and Research Network
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS37661 Nigerian Research and Education Network Limited by Guarantee
• AS328293 TogoRER - RESEAU D'EDUCATION ET DE RECHERCHE DU TOGO - TogoRER
• AS11537 Internet2
• AS20965 GEANT Vereniging
• AS329574 Sierra Leone Research and Education Network
• AS328702 Agence pour le Developpement du Numérique
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS24691 IDDQD-AS

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 2 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 14 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-BCS37273, AS-BCS37273, AS-BFIX-OUA-PEERS, AS-DOLPHIN-TRANSIT, AS-HURRICANE, AS-RETN-ACTUAL-V4, AS-SET-WACREN, AS-TOGOCOM, AS-TRANSROUTE-SPEC.

Internet exchanges

• Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria - Lagos — Lagos, Nigeria