AS7020 — QDATA-AS

AS7020 announces 12 IPv4 prefixes covering 89,088 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Autonomous System 7020 (QDATA-AS) belongs to Business Connexion Communications — BCX, a South African IT services and managed-network company that has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Telkom SA since 2015.

What it's used for

• Carrying BCX's own network and the managed connectivity, hosting and IT services it runs for South African corporate and public-sector clients.
• Its prefixes come out of South Africa's legacy 196.10.0.0/16 and 165.233.0.0/16 space, and it takes transit from several local carriers including Telkom (AS5713).

Notable

• An enterprise / managed-services network, not a consumer ISP: the address space backs corporate sites and hosted systems, and almost none of it carries reverse DNS at all — a signature of business assignments rather than subscriber pools.
• Registered with AFRINIC, despite the low AS number falling inside a range otherwise dominated by ARIN.

Interesting

• The handle QDATA-AS is a corporate fossil. BCX descends from Q Data, which merged into Persetel Q Data, was renamed Comparex Holdings, and then merged with Business Connection in 2004 to form Business Connexion. The AS handle outlasted three name changes and an acquisition.

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

Announced prefixes

• 165.233.0.0/16
• 196.4.250.0/23
• 196.10.1.0/24
• 196.10.2.0/23
• 196.10.4.0/22
• 196.10.8.0/21
• 196.10.16.0/20
• 196.10.32.0/20
• 196.10.48.0/23
• 196.10.50.0/24
• 196.29.128.0/19
• 196.45.168.0/21

Upstream networks

• AS5713 Telkom SA Ltd.
• AS37271 Workonline Communications(Pty) Ltd
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS3741 Dimension Data

Downstream networks

• AS328122 Business Connexion (PTY) LTD

Adjacent networks

• AS5713 Telkom SA Ltd.
• AS37271 Workonline Communications(Pty) Ltd
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS328122 Business Connexion (PTY) LTD
• AS3741 Dimension Data
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions

Internet exchanges

• NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg — Johannesburg, South Africa
• NAPAfrica IX Cape Town — Cape Town, South Africa
• Johannesburg Internet Exchange — Johannesburg, South Africa
• Cape Town Internet Exchange — Cape Town, South Africa