Bandar Seri Begawan · Brunei
PeeringDB records one exchange in Bandar Seri Begawan, Borneo-IX, with 11 participants, plus three UNN facilities carrying one network each. Borneo-IX is the best connected exchange in the city. An address that geolocates here shows where a network registered and routes the block, not where a device sits.
Internet exchanges in Bandar Seri Begawan
An exchange is a shared switch where networks hand traffic to each other directly. Participant counts come from PeeringDB, where each network maintains its own record.
| Exchange | Participants | Registry carriers peering |
|---|---|---|
Borneo-IX | 11 |
Exchange records: PeeringDB.
Colocation facilities
Buildings where networks put equipment. The network count is how many PeeringDB members list a presence there, which shows where capacity in the city sits.
| Facility | Networks present | Address |
|---|---|---|
| UNN Tungku CLS | 1 | Tungku Link Road, Gadong, Bandar Seri Begawan |
| UNN TelHouse Sumbiling | 1 | Unified National Networks Sdn Bhd UNN Sumbiling Telephone-House Jln Istana Darussalam |
| UNN Telisai CLS | 1 | Telisai Earth Station Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Highway Telisai Tutong Negara Brunei Darussalam |
What a Bandar Seri Begawan IP address tells you
Borneo-IX is the only exchange PeeringDB lists in Bandar Seri Begawan, and its 11 participants account for every peering session the registry records in the city. The three colocation sites, UNN Tungku CLS, UNN TelHouse Sumbiling and UNN Telisai CLS, each hold a single network, so the facilities carry three network presences between them while the exchange carries 11. AS10094 peers at Borneo-IX, and the carrier registry maps that same ASN to DST, imagine and Progresif, so Brunei mobile traffic reaches the exchange under one origin number.
An address that a database places in Bandar Seri Begawan may not be a phone or a server in the city. An operator announces a block from a registry record that carries one address for the entire assignment. Mobile networks push subscriber traffic through a small number of gateways, so people connecting from anywhere on the network share the same exit addresses. Geolocation providers read the operator's own published location and repeat it for every address in the block, which puts the whole range at that registered point.
Someone checking an address gets more from the routing data than from the city label. The origin ASN says which network announces the prefix; with AS10094 covering DST, imagine and Progresif, that number tells you the traffic is Brunei mobile without naming a brand or a street. The netname and the registered range on the specific prefix show how wide the assignment is, and a wide block with one city attached is a registry entry rather than a measurement of where the device sits.
Mobile carriers in Brunei
A mobile address in Bandar Seri Begawan is routed by one of the country's operators. Each entry lists the operator's ASNs, so you can check which network an address belongs to.
Questions
Which internet exchanges are in Bandar Seri Begawan?
PeeringDB lists one, Borneo-IX, with 11 participants. Alongside it the registry records three colocation facilities, UNN Tungku CLS, UNN TelHouse Sumbiling and UNN Telisai CLS, each with a single network present. No other exchange in the city appears in the data.
Do Brunei mobile carriers peer in Bandar Seri Begawan?
AS10094 sits among the participants at Borneo-IX, and the carrier registry ties that ASN to DST, imagine and Progresif. The registry does not break the peering out per brand, so the exchange presence reads as one mobile origin rather than three separate ones.
Does an IP that geolocates to Bandar Seri Begawan mean the device is there?
No. It means the operator registered the block to that location and geolocation databases copied it. Mobile subscribers elsewhere in Brunei can leave through gateways whose addresses carry the capital's label, so the city name describes the record, not the handset.
Sources
- PeeringDB - exchanges, participant counts, facilities and network presence, snapshot 2026-09-07
- PROXIES.SX carrier and ASN registry - operator ASNs used to match peering participants