AS10786 CHARTWAY-FCU

CHARTWAY-FCU belongs to Chartway Federal Credit Union, a member-owned financial institution headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia with branches across Virginia, Texas and Utah. RIS sees 2 IPv4 prefixes carrying 512 addresses, no IPv6, and 2 observed neighbours.

What it's used for

Chartway's own edge: the public-facing side of a mid-size retail financial institution. The AS exists so the credit union can multihome the small amount of space it needs to publish (online and mobile banking front ends, mail, VPN concentrators for branches and staff) without depending on a single carrier. The two announcements are 216.54.53.0/24 and 8.33.35.0/24, and both sampled addresses in the first resolve straight to chartway.com, confirming the space carries the institution's own services rather than anything it resells.

Notable

Two prefixes and two neighbours is about as minimal as a real, actively-routed enterprise AS gets. This is a network built for resilience, not for scale: 512 addresses is not a hosting footprint or a customer network, it is a DMZ. Nothing about it suggests IPv6 has been deployed at the edge.

Interesting

The 8.33.35.0/24 announcement is a fragment of the legacy 8.0.0.0/8 block, historically Level 3's, now widely broken up and assigned in /24s to enterprises. A credit union announcing a piece of 8/8 is not a historical curiosity about the credit union, it is a reminder that a legacy /8 tells you nothing about who holds a slice of it today.