AS7420 — ZAMNET-AS

AS7420 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 8,192 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Zamnet Communication Systems Ltd, Zambia's first internet service provider, based at the COMESA Centre on Ben Bella Road in Lusaka. The ASN announces around 8k IPv4 addresses, all within 196.46.192.0/18.

What it's used for

• Internet access for customers across Zambia — Zamnet operates points of presence in Lusaka, Kitwe, Livingstone, Ndola and Solwezi.
• Also carries Zamnet's own service infrastructure; reverse DNS in the block includes hosts such as smtp.zamnet.zm.

Notable

• Founded in 1994 and wholly owned by the University of Zambia, Zamnet brought the internet to Zambia and remains one of the country's longest-running operators.
• Zamnet also administers the .zm country-code top-level domain.

Interesting

• The company grew directly out of a university networking project, a common origin story for the first ISP in many African and Latin American countries — the academic network was the only entity with international connectivity to build on.

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

Announced prefixes

• 196.46.192.0/19

Upstream networks

• AS60171 AFR-IX TELECOM S.A.

Downstream networks

• AS328665 Zambia Revenue Authority

Adjacent networks

• AS60171 AFR-IX TELECOM S.A.
• AS328665 Zambia Revenue Authority

Internet exchanges

• Lusaka Internet Exchange Point — Lusaka, Zambia