Dar es Salaam · Tanzania
PeeringDB records two exchanges in Dar es Salaam: TIX Tanzania - Dar es Salaam with 32 participants and DarIX with 5, alongside nine colocation facilities carrying 63 network presences. TIX Tanzania - Dar es Salaam is the better connected of the two. An address that geolocates here shows where an operator registered the block, not where a device sits.
Internet exchanges in Dar es Salaam
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 |
|---|---|---|
TIX Tanzania - Dar es Salaam Tanzania Internet eXchange | 32 | none in the registry |
DarIX Dar es Salaam Internet Exchange (DarIX) | 5 | none in the registry |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| TIX - Tanzania - Posta House | 14 | Posta House, 7 Ghana Avenue/Ohio Street, 11101 Kivukoni, Ilala |
| SEACOM Dar Es Salaam CLS | 10 | 49 Silver Sands Area P.O. Box 33407, Kunduchi |
| Wingu Dar es Salaam | 10 | Mbezi |
| Zantel | 8 | Mwai Kibaki Road/Old Bagamoyo road |
| TTCL Dar es Salaam Telephone House | 6 | 57JP+MFP Zanaki St, Dar es Salaam |
| National Internet Data Center (NIDC) | 6 | 66JR+8V9, Dar es Salaam 1 Wizara Close, 14112 Mikocheni |
| STELLAR IX SALASALA DataCenter | 4 | Kinondoni |
| Datalabs Dar es Salaam | 4 | 28 Julius K. Nyerere Rd |
| TTCL Kijitonyama Exchange | 1 | Block K, Bagamoyo Rd 66JR+24 Dar es Salaam |
What a Dar es Salaam IP address tells you
Peering in Dar es Salaam concentrates on TIX Tanzania - Dar es Salaam, which lists 32 of the 37 exchange participants PeeringDB records in the city, and DarIX accounts for the other 5. More network presences sit in colocation than the exchange participant count alone suggests, with 63 spread across nine facilities. TIX - Tanzania - Posta House holds 14 of them, while SEACOM Dar Es Salaam CLS and Wingu Dar es Salaam hold 10 each. No Tanzanian mobile carrier ASN appears in the registry's participant list for either exchange.
An address that a database places in Dar es Salaam is an address some operator announces, and a routing announcement carries no position of its own. Geolocation providers read the registry record for the block and the operator's own published location, so a whole allocation inherits one city name. Mobile networks add a second step, because subscriber traffic leaves through a small number of gateways and the exit point rather than the handset decides what a lookup returns. Two subscribers hundreds of kilometres apart can present the same city.
Anyone checking an address gets more from the prefix than from the city label. The origin ASN says which network announces the block, and the netname and holder in the RIR record name the organisation that holds it. A block originating from a mobile operator's ASN behaves differently from one originating in a network that peers at TIX Tanzania - Dar es Salaam or sits in one of the nine listed facilities. Where the routing data and the reported city disagree, the routing data is the firmer of the two.
Questions
Which internet exchanges are in Dar es Salaam?
PeeringDB lists two. TIX Tanzania - Dar es Salaam, recorded as the Tanzania Internet eXchange, has 32 participants, and DarIX, the Dar es Salaam Internet Exchange, has 5. Between them they account for the 37 exchange peers the registry records in the city.
Do Tanzania mobile carriers peer in Dar es Salaam?
The registry does not show it. No mobile carrier ASN from the Tanzanian carrier list appears among the participants at either Dar es Salaam exchange. That is a gap in what PeeringDB records rather than proof that no mobile operator interconnects locally.
Does an IP that geolocates to Dar es Salaam mean the device is there?
No. It means an operator announces the block containing that address and publishes Dar es Salaam as its location. On mobile networks the address usually identifies a gateway, and the subscriber behind it can be anywhere the operator's network reaches.
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