2 in a perturbative regime the holographic dual is strongly interacting and vice versa. This fact provides an unique tool to make quantitative calculations in 4D strongly interacting theories, and creates a very interesting connection between extra-dimensional and TC-like theories. Working in the framework suggested by the AdS/CFT correspondence, one considers for the fifth dimension a segment ending with two branes (one ultraviolet, UV, and the other one infrared, IR). Several choices of gauge groups in the bulk have been proposed: there are models, with or without the Higgs, which assume a SU (2)$_{L}$ × SU (2)$_{R}$ × U $^{(1)$_{B}$}$− L gauge group, [8–17], or SU (2) × U (1) [18–21] or a simpler SU (2) in the 5D bulk [22, 23]. Compactification from five to four dimensions is often performed by the standard Kaluza Klein mode expansion, however alternative methods have been suggested. Effective low energy chiral Lagrangians in four dimensions, can be obtained by holographic versions of 5D theories in warped background [24–26] or via the deconstruction technique [27–35]. The deconstruction mechanism provides a correspondence at low energies between theories with replicated 4D gauge symmetries G and theories with a 5D gauge symmetry G on a lattice. We will refer to the deconstructed models also as moose models. Several examples mainly based on the gauge group SU (2) have recently received attention [36–44]. It is interesting to note that even few sites of the moose give a good approximation of the 5D theory [45]. The BESS model [46, 47], based on the hidden symmetry approach [48–50], is a prototype of models of this kind: with a particular choice of its parameters it can generate the recently investigated three site model [51–55]. Generic TC models usually have difficulties in satisfying the constraints coming from EW precision measurements on S,T,U observables [56, 57]. In this paper, we have reconsidered the Degenerate BESS (D-BESS) model [58, 59], a low-energy effective theory which possesses a ( SU (2) ⊗ SU (2)) 2 custodial symmetry that leads to a suppressed contribution from the new physics to the EW precision observables, making possible to have new vector bosons at a relatively low energy scale (around a TeV). This new vector states are interpreted as composites of a strongly interacting sector. Starting from the generalization to N sites of the D-BESS model (GD-BESS) [39, 60], based on the deconstruction or “moose” technique [27], we consider the continuum limit to a 5D theory. The D-BESS model and its generalization suffer the drawback of the unitarity constraint, which is as low as that of the Higgsless SM [61, 62], that is around 1 . 7 TeV. However,