AS5535 FAO Headquarters

AS5535 belongs to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN specialized agency for food security, agriculture, forestry, and fisheries. The registry record places it at FAO Headquarters on Viale delle Terme di Caracalla in Rome.

What it's used for

• The organization's own institutional network: staff connectivity and internal systems at the Rome headquarters, plus FAO's public-facing web, statistical, and data services.
• FAO operates worldwide through regional and country offices, and the address space supports the agency's own operations rather than any commercial service.

Notable

• This is an intergovernmental organization network, not a national government or a commercial ISP. The address space is institutional: it exists to run the agency, not to sell connectivity.
• The ASN anchors a legacy /16, a full Class B-era block, which is a hallmark of an institution that received address space early and has held it ever since.

Interesting

• FAO is one of a small number of UN agencies that run their own autonomous system rather than buying connectivity as an ordinary customer, a reflection of the scale of its data and statistical publishing.