AS8781 — QA-ISP

Network type: residential

AS8781 announces 52 IPv4 prefixes covering 661,248 addresses and 268 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

QA-ISP is Ooredoo Q.S.C. — Qatar's incumbent telecom operator, known as Qtel until the 2013 rebrand, and still the country's dominant carrier. This is the AS behind qatar.net.qa.

What it's used for

It is Qatar's main eyeball network. AS8781 announces roughly 667,000 IPv4 addresses across 151 prefixes plus 11 IPv6 prefixes — a very large footprint for a country of under three million people — and carries fixed broadband, fibre-to-the-home and mobile data for the great majority of Qatari subscribers. Peering databases rank it first in the country by estimated eyeballs, with a customer population around 1.8 million.

The sampled reverse DNS lands on be-10-rec-gw5.qatar.net.qa, a bundle-Ethernet gateway router in the operator's own domain: backbone naming, as expected at the edge of a carrier's address space.

Notable

• 126 observed BGP neighbours. That is a transit-carrier's peering profile as much as an ISP's, and it reflects Ooredoo's role as one of the Gulf's international gateways: it lands submarine cables and sells wholesale capacity onward, not just retail access.
• The AS has been in the routing table since RIS records begin, originating 212.77.194.0/24 in 2000 under the Qtel name.
• Ooredoo Group is a large multinational with operations across the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, but this AS is the Qatari domestic network specifically; the group's other markets are numbered separately.

Interesting

The fixed and mobile sides of the business share this one AS, which is why it resists a clean split between residential and mobile — a single Qatari household's broadband line and phone can both be numbered out of the same estate.

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

Announced prefixes

• 23.15.44.0/22
• 23.195.4.0/22
• 37.208.128.0/17
• 37.210.0.0/15
• 78.100.0.0/21
• 78.100.8.0/23
• 78.100.11.0/24
• 78.100.12.0/23
• 78.100.14.0/24
• 78.100.16.0/20
• 78.100.32.0/20
• 78.100.48.0/21
• 78.100.56.0/22
• 78.100.60.0/23
• 78.100.63.0/24
• 78.100.64.0/18
• 78.100.128.0/17
• 78.101.0.0/16
• 82.148.96.0/21
• 82.148.104.0/23
• 82.148.106.0/24
• 82.148.108.0/22
• 82.148.112.0/20
• 86.62.192.0/20
• 86.62.208.0/24
• 86.62.210.0/23
• 86.62.212.0/22
• 86.62.217.0/24
• 86.62.219.0/24
• 86.62.220.0/24
• 86.62.222.0/24
• 86.62.228.0/22
• 86.62.236.0/22
• 86.62.240.0/23
• 86.62.243.0/24
• 86.62.244.0/24
• 86.62.247.0/24
• 86.62.249.0/24
• 86.62.250.0/23
• 86.62.252.0/23
• 86.62.254.0/24
• 89.211.0.0/16
• 176.202.0.0/15
• 178.152.0.0/15
• 185.96.224.0/22
• 209.58.40.0/23
• 212.77.192.0/19
• 213.130.96.0/20
• 213.130.112.0/21
• 213.130.120.0/22
• 213.130.124.0/23
• 213.130.126.0/24
• 2001:1a10::/35
• 2001:1a10:1580::/41
• 2001:1a10:1600::/39
• 2001:1a10:1800::/37
• 2001:1a10:2000::/37
• 2001:1a10:241f::/48
• 2001:1a10:2422::/48
• 2001:1a10:242f::/48
• 2001:1a10:2431::/48
• 2001:1a10:2432::/48
• 2001:1a10:2434::/48
• 2001:1a10:2436::/47
• 2001:1a10:2438::/45
• 2001:1a10:2440::/42
• 2001:1a10:2480::/41
• 2001:1a10:2500::/40
• 2001:1a10:2600::/39
• 2001:1a10:2800::/37
• 2001:1a10:3000::/36
• 2001:1a10:4000::/34
• 2001:1a10:8000::/35
• 2001:1a10:9138::/45
• 2001:1a10:9140::/42
• 2001:1a10:9180::/41
• 2001:1a10:9200::/39
• 2001:1a10:9400::/38
• 2001:1a10:9800::/37
• 2001:1a10:a000::/35
• 2001:1a10:c000::/34
• 2001:1a11::/44
• 2001:1a11:12::/47
• 2001:1a11:14::/46
• 2001:1a11:18::/45
• 2001:1a11:1f::/48
• 2001:1a11:20::/48
• 2001:1a11:22::/47
• 2001:1a11:24::/47
• 2001:1a11:27::/48
• 2001:1a11:28::/45
• 2001:1a11:30::/44
• 2001:1a11:40::/43
• 2001:1a11:59::/48
• 2001:1a11:63::/48
• 2001:1a11:68::/46
• 2001:1a11:6e::/48
• 2001:1a11:70::/47
• 2001:1a11:73::/48
• 2001:1a11:78::/48

and 220 more.

Upstream networks

• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS6453 TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6762 TELECOM ITALIA SPARKLE S.p.A.
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS5511 Orange S.A.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS11164 Internet2
• AS2497 Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
• AS38001 NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
• AS7473 Singapore Telecommunications Ltd
• AS42708 Glesys AB
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS12552 GlobalConnect AB
• AS3741 Dimension Data
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS29169 GANDI SAS
• AS1103 SURF B.V.
• AS49673 Truenetwork LLC
• AS208972 GIBIRNET ILETISIM HIZMETLERI SANAYI VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI
• AS56655 Gigahost AS
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions

Downstream networks

• AS42298 Ooredoo Q.S.C.
• AS5416 B.S.C.
• AS54253 Oracle Corporation
• AS31452 ZAIN BAHRAIN B.S.C.
• AS14593 Space Exploration Technologies Corporation
• AS29357 NATIONAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY K.S.C.P.
• AS198499 Qatar University
• AS60185 QatarEnergy
• AS47589 Kuwait Telecommunications Company K.S.C.C.
• AS215624 QatarEnergy LNG PQSC
• AS21859 Zenlayer Inc
• AS204806 Telecommunication Department
• AS24429 Zhejiang Taobao Network Co.,Ltd
• AS9155 Quality Net General Trading & Contracting Company
• AS400696 MIBURA, INC.
• AS139341 ACE
• AS139057 Edgenext Legend Dynasty Pte. Ltd.
• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS21245 MEDIANOVA INTERNET HIZMETLERI VE TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI
• AS396986 Bytedance Inc.
• AS208542 Mannai Trading Company LLC
• AS138915 Kaopu Cloud HK Limited

Adjacent networks

• AS42298 Ooredoo Q.S.C.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS5416 B.S.C.
• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS29357 NATIONAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY K.S.C.P.
• AS5511 Orange S.A.
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS6762 TELECOM ITALIA SPARKLE S.p.A.
• AS6453 TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC
• AS42708 Glesys AB
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS31452 ZAIN BAHRAIN B.S.C.
• AS54253 Oracle Corporation
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS208972 GIBIRNET ILETISIM HIZMETLERI SANAYI VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI
• AS50673 Serverius Holding B.V.
• AS3741 Dimension Data
• AS4637 Telstra Global
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS14593 Space Exploration Technologies Corporation
• AS13030 Init7 (Switzerland) Ltd.
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS198499 Qatar University

Internet exchanges

• DE-CIX Frankfurt — Frankfurt, Germany
• LINX LON1 — London, United Kingdom
• AMS-IX Amsterdam — Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore — Singapore, Singapore
• Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn — Ashburn, United States
• UAE-IX — Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Qatar Internet Exchange Point — Doha, Qatar
• Doha IX — Doha, Qatar