AS8529 — OMANTEL-AS Zain Omantel International FZ-LLC

AS8529 announces 11 IPv4 prefixes covering 13,824 addresses and 7 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

OMANTEL-AS is the AS that carries Omantel's international wholesale business, now run through Zain Omantel International (ZOI) — the joint venture between Kuwait's Zain and Oman's incumbent operator Omantel that consolidates their international carrier operations.

What it's used for

• Global IP transit and wholesale carriage: ZOI sells connectivity to operators, content networks and data centres across the Middle East and out to the rest of the world over Oman's subsea-cable landings.
• The AS is the transit path for a large share of regional traffic, rather than a network of end users.

Notable

• The defining number here is not the address count — a modest ~14,000 IPv4 addresses — but the peering fan-out: on the order of 1,800 observed BGP neighbours. That ratio, tiny address space and enormous adjacency, is the fingerprint of a transit carrier: it moves other people's routes, it does not number other people's customers.
• The little rDNS that exists is Omantel router naming (omantel.net.om) plus Akamai cache appliances hosted on-net. There are no subscriber pools; Omantel's Omani retail customers sit on separate ASNs.

Interesting

• Oman's geography is the business case: the country sits beside the Strait of Hormuz on the cable routes between Europe, Africa and Asia, and ZOI's pitch is that it lands more subsea systems than any other operator in the region.

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

Announced prefixes

• 2.18.160.0/22
• 80.231.213.0/24
• 82.178.32.0/23
• 82.178.158.0/23
• 104.122.80.0/22
• 134.0.216.0/21
• 151.248.96.0/20
• 185.200.124.0/22
• 185.201.192.0/22
• 188.95.192.0/24
• 213.202.0.0/21
• 2a01:3e0:2006::/48
• 2a02:f040::/47
• 2a02:f040:4::/47
• 2a02:f040:7::/48
• 2a02:f040:a::/48
• 2a02:f040:c::/48
• 2a14:1000::/29

Upstream networks

• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS6453 TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC
• AS137409 GSL Networks Pty LTD
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS3320 Deutsche Telekom AG
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS3333 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS38001 NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
• AS4637 Telstra Global
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS6762 TELECOM ITALIA SPARKLE S.p.A.
• AS42708 Glesys Sweden AB
• AS50628 Leonix Telecom SAS
• AS29504 Freenet Liberec, z.s.
• AS204092 Association GRIFON
• AS50673 Serverius Holding B.V.
• AS3303 Swisscom (Schweiz) AG
• AS59919 Brainbox S.r.l.

Downstream networks

• AS43766 Mobile Telecommunication Company Saudi Arabia Joint-Stock company
• AS204170 Awaser Oman LLC
• AS48832 Jordanian mobile phone services Ltd
• AS28885 Oman Telecommunications Company (S.A.O.G)
• AS5416 B.S.C.
• AS42961 Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.C.P.
• AS9009 M247 Europe SRL
• AS31452 ZAIN BAHRAIN B.S.C.
• AS54253 Oracle Corporation
• AS37473 Telesom
• AS3225 GULFNET COMMUNICATIONS CO. WLL
• AS9541 Cyber Internet Services (Pvt) Ltd.
• AS21859 Zenlayer Inc
• AS36998 Sudanese Mobile Telephone (ZAIN) Co Ltd
• AS17557 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited
• AS30873 Public Telecommunication Corporation
• AS14593 Space Exploration Technologies Corporation
• AS54994 Meteverse Limited.
• AS38193 Transworld Associates (Pvt.) Ltd.
• AS328250 Golis Telecom Somalia
• AS24429 Zhejiang Taobao Network Co.,Ltd
• AS138915 Kaopu Cloud HK Limited
• AS139341 ACE
• AS55256 Netskope Inc
• AS14789 Cloudflare, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS43766 Mobile Telecommunication Company Saudi Arabia Joint-Stock company
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS137409 GSL Networks Pty LTD
• AS42961 Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.C.P.
• AS48832 Jordanian mobile phone services Ltd
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS204170 Awaser Oman LLC
• AS6453 TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC
• AS28885 Oman Telecommunications Company (S.A.O.G)
• AS5416 B.S.C.
• AS31452 ZAIN BAHRAIN B.S.C.
• AS9009 M247 Europe SRL
• AS17557 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited
• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS4637 Telstra Global
• AS38193 Transworld Associates (Pvt.) Ltd.
• AS59919 Brainbox S.r.l.
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS42708 Glesys Sweden AB
• AS204092 Association GRIFON
• AS21859 Zenlayer Inc
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS6762 TELECOM ITALIA SPARKLE S.p.A.

Routing security

• RPKI: 38 valid, 0 invalid and 2 not-found announcements; 20 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 90% of announcements registered; 151 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-10099, AS-50010, AS-8529, AS-ARBINET-LAX-BUYERS, AS-BATELCO-BH, AS-BTELEKOM, AS-CAMBRIUM-AMSIX-RS-DENY, AS-CHTR-SYNC, AS-CTBC-CUSTOMERS65, AS-ECIX-FRA, AS-EMIX, AS-FRANCEIX-MRS-LIST, AS-FRANCEIX-PAR-LIST, AS-GTTCUST, AS-GTTCUST6, AS-HKTCUSTOMER, AS-HURRICANE, AS-HURRICANEV6, AS-KDDCUSTOMER2, AS-MANDA-AMSIX-PEERS-V4, AS-MANDA-AMSIX-PEERS-V6, AS-MANDA-DECIX-PEERS-V4, AS-MANDA-DECIX-PEERS-V6, AS-MANDA-ECIX-PEERS-V4, AS-MANDA-ECIX-PEERS-V6.

Internet exchanges

• DE-CIX Frankfurt — Frankfurt, Germany
• LINX LON1 — London, United Kingdom
• AMS-IX Amsterdam — Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Neutral Internet Exchange — Amsterdam, Netherlands
• France-IX Paris — Paris, France
• Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore — Singapore, Singapore
• Milan Internet Exchange — Milan, Italy
• Any2 California — Los Angeles, United States
• Peering.cz — Prague, Czech Republic
• Nine IX — Paris, France
• BroadBand Internet eXchange Singapore — Singapore, Singapore
• France-IX Marseille — Marseille, France
• EuroGIX — Strasbourg, France
• Megaport Frankfurt IX — Frankfurt, Germany
• UAE-IX — Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• DE-CIX Marseille — Marseille, France
• Kuwait Internet Exchange — Kuwait City, Kuwait
• Equinix Internet Exchange Muscat — Muscat, Oman
• Oman-IX — Muscat, Oman