AS8346 — SONATEL SONATEL-AS Autonomous System

Network type: residential

AS8346 announces 10 IPv4 prefixes covering 337,152 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

SONATEL-AS — Societe Nationale des Telecommunications du Senegal, the Senegalese incumbent operator, based in Dakar and part of the Orange group. This is the main Sonatel autonomous system.

What it's used for

• Fixed and mobile internet access for Sonatel's customers in Senegal, plus transit for the group's regional operations. The address space is AFRINIC Senegal registrations (41.82, 41.83, 154.124, 154.125, 196.207 and neighbours), and what rDNS exists sits under orange-sonatel.com.

Notable

• A national incumbent's eyeball network: a few hundred thousand IPv4 addresses originated from a single AS, with many BGP neighbours reflecting Sonatel's role as a West African landing point and transit provider.
• rDNS coverage is sparse — typical for the region — so the prefix registrations rather than reverse names are the reliable signal here.

Interesting

• The RIPE aut-num for AS8346 is one of the pre-database objects (a placeholder registration date), while the addresses themselves live in AFRINIC. The split is a relic of Senegal connecting before AFRINIC existed.

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

Announced prefixes

• 41.82.0.0/15
• 41.208.128.0/18
• 41.214.0.0/17
• 80.15.245.0/24
• 154.124.0.0/15
• 169.239.136.0/24
• 196.1.96.0/24
• 196.1.98.0/23
• 196.207.192.0/18
• 213.154.64.0/19
• 2001:4278::/32
• 2a01:c9c0:c016::/48

Upstream networks

• AS5511 Orange S.A.
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6453 TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC
• AS6762 TELECOM ITALIA SPARKLE S.p.A.

Downstream networks

• AS30985 Orange Mali SA
• AS37461 ORANGE GUINEE
• AS28683 SOCIETE BENINOISE D'INFRASTRUCTURES NUMERIQUES
• AS329407 Universite Cheikh Anta DIOP de DAKAR
• AS37559 Orange Bissau
• AS37323 Netpage Company Limited
• AS12684 SES ASTRA S.A.
• AS21271 Society of Mali's Telecommunications (SOTELMA)
• AS37094 Orange Liberia, INC
• AS37541 Chinguitel S.A
• AS328140 INSIST NET Limited
• AS328558 Senelec SA
• AS327809 ARC Informatique
• AS328284 Société Malienne de Transmission et de Diffusion
• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS329726 Comitè d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques de la Jeunesse Dakar 2026
• AS37524 Africell Gambia
• AS328650 Universite numerique Cheikh Hamidou KANE (UN-CHK)
• AS328253 ALPHA TELECOMMUNICATION MALI-ATEL-S.A
• AS328259 WAW SAS
• AS37164 Orange (SL) Limited
• AS37508 MATTEL

Adjacent networks

• AS5511 Orange S.A.
• AS6453 TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6762 TELECOM ITALIA SPARKLE S.p.A.
• AS30985 Orange Mali SA
• AS37461 ORANGE GUINEE
• AS28683 SOCIETE BENINOISE D'INFRASTRUCTURES NUMERIQUES
• AS12684 SES ASTRA S.A.
• AS329407 Universite Cheikh Anta DIOP de DAKAR
• AS37559 Orange Bissau
• AS37323 Netpage Company Limited
• AS21271 Society of Mali's Telecommunications (SOTELMA)
• AS37094 Orange Liberia, INC
• AS37541 Chinguitel S.A
• AS328140 INSIST NET Limited
• AS328558 Senelec SA
• AS327809 ARC Informatique
• AS328284 Société Malienne de Transmission et de Diffusion
• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS329726 Comitè d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques de la Jeunesse Dakar 2026
• AS328650 Universite numerique Cheikh Hamidou KANE (UN-CHK)
• AS37524 Africell Gambia
• AS328253 ALPHA TELECOMMUNICATION MALI-ATEL-S.A
• AS328259 WAW SAS
• AS25250 Gamtel Co.

Internet exchanges

• France-IX Paris — Paris, France
• HubSIX — Dakar, Senegal