AS37680 — COOL-IDEAS

Network type: residential

AS37680 announces 5 IPv4 prefixes covering 74,752 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

COOL-IDEAS is operated by Cool Ideas Service Provider (Pty) Ltd.

What it's used for

• The address space carries residential and business subscriber traffic, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as n6bk-cust.coolideas.co.za and u35s-cust.coolideas.co.za.
• The AS announces 74,752 IPv4 addresses across 13 prefixes and maintains 1,108 observed neighbours, a ratio consistent with a regional access network rather than a transit provider.
• Traffic originates from fiber and fixed wireless internet subscribers in South Africa, reflecting the operator's business model of providing broadband connectivity to end-users.

Notable

• Registrants for the majority of prefixes align with the announcer, specifically Cool Ideas Service Provider (Pty) Ltd, while the 102.36.64.0/20 block is registered to Clear Access (Pty) Ltd.
• The inventory is dominated by the 102.132.128.0/17 and 155.93.128.0/18 blocks, with the remainder consisting of smaller /20 to /24 allocations within the 155.93.0.0/16 and 102.223.0.0/16 ranges.

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

Announced prefixes

• 102.36.64.0/20
• 102.132.128.0/17
• 102.223.148.0/22
• 154.0.0.0/20
• 155.93.128.0/17
• 2607:bc40:104::/48
• 2c0f:f9a8::/32

Upstream networks

• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS37662 West Indian Ocean Cable Company
• AS3741 Dimension Data
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS50304 Blix Solutions AS
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS33891 Core-Backbone GmbH
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS12552 GlobalConnect AB
• AS29075 IELO-LIAZO SERVICES SAS
• AS20562 Broadband Hosting B.V.
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.
• AS15830 Equinix (EMEA) Acquisition Enterprises B.V.
• AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"
• AS25091 IP-Max SA
• AS5405 Inter.link GmbH
• AS35280 F5 Networks SARL
• AS5511 Orange S.A.
• AS58453 China Mobile International Limited

Downstream networks

• AS329112 Upstream Connect (Pty) Ltd
• AS328596 Mind the Speed (PTY) Ltd
• AS37611 AFRIHOST SP (PTY) LTD
• AS36943 1 GRID (PTY) LTD
• AS328966 Echo 45 Trading (Pty) Ltd
• AS36916 X-DSL Networking Solutions
• AS327878 AS327878
• AS328365 Edge connect (pty) Ltd

Adjacent networks

• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS37662 West Indian Ocean Cable Company
• AS3741 Dimension Data
• AS329112 Upstream Connect (Pty) Ltd
• AS328596 Mind the Speed (PTY) Ltd
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS37611 AFRIHOST SP (PTY) LTD
• AS3223 Voxility LLP
• AS36943 1 GRID (PTY) LTD
• AS328966 Echo 45 Trading (Pty) Ltd
• AS327878 AS327878
• AS36916 X-DSL Networking Solutions
• AS328365 Edge connect (pty) Ltd
• AS50304 Blix Solutions AS
• AS5511 Orange S.A.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS33891 Core-Backbone GmbH
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"
• AS29075 IELO-LIAZO SERVICES SAS

Internet exchanges

• LINX LON1 — London, United Kingdom
• NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg — Johannesburg, South Africa
• NAPAfrica IX Cape Town — Cape Town, South Africa
• DE-CIX Madrid — Madrid, Spain
• Johannesburg Internet Exchange — Johannesburg, South Africa
• NAPAfrica IX Durban — Durban, South Africa
• Cape Town Internet Exchange — Cape Town, South Africa
• Durban Internet eXchange — Durban, South Africa
• DE-CIX Lisbon — Lisbon, Portugal