AS5500 CHESS Commercial Internet Service Provider

CHESS is Chess ICT Ltd, a British business-communications and managed-IT provider based at Alderley Park in Cheshire. The RIPE record still describes it plainly as a "Commercial Internet Service Provider".

What it's used for

• Connectivity and hosted services sold to UK businesses: broadband and leased lines, VoIP and hosted telephony, mobile, and managed IT.
• The address space serves customer sites and Chess's own service platforms rather than a residential eyeball base.

Notable

• This is a business ISP, not a consumer one. Chess sells to SMEs and enterprises, so the routed space skews toward office sites, hosted voice and managed services.
• Chess is multi-homed through several UK and international transit providers and peers widely, which is typical for a mid-sized business operator that must keep customer circuits up.

Interesting

• The company grew out of the UK telecoms reseller market of the 1990s and later folded ICT and cloud services into the same business, which is why one AS carries both connectivity and hosted-application traffic.