Optimising your connectivity as a Google Verified Peering Provider

Optimising your connectivity as a Google Verified Peering Provider (VPP)

Gold-level Google VPP is now live on NSW-IX. Peers are opted in by default for highly available access to publicly reachable Google services.

Gold-level Google VPP is going live on NSW-IX, Thursday, 27 November 2025. Peers are opted in by default for highly available access to publicly reachable Google services.

As a Google VPP, IAA is extending connectivity across our Sydney exchanges, with Melbourne to follow. This partnership enables Members to access dedicated, redundant connectivity to Google’s edge network without needing to establish or maintain direct peering or PNIs with Google.

With Gold tier status for NSW-IX, IAA meets Google’s highest redundancy criteria, providing metro-level diverse connectivity to support reliable delivery of services including Google Workspace, YouTube, Google Cloud public IPs, and other publicly reachable Google resources.

Opt-in by default

To keep deployment simple and ensure immediate benefit, Google VPP will be enabled by default for Members peering with the route servers. This means prefixes you export to the route servers will be advertised towards Google (AS15169) automatically and Googles prefixes will be announced toward the route servers via IAA’s content network (AS10084).

Members retain full control and can opt out at any time using standard BGP community tagging. To prevent your prefixes from being exported towards Google via IAA’s VPP connection, tag them with the following BGP community:

NSW-IX: 10084:3001 – Google AS15169 Opt Out

VIC-IX: 10084:3101 – Google AS15169 Opt Out

The opt-out process is tied to an automation that will cease your route server announcements toward AS15169 and vice versa announcement from AS10084 of Googles prefixes toward your ASN via the route servers following your opt-out, this takes approximately 5 minutes.

What this means for routing

IAA has been granted explicit permission by Google to re-announce IX Member prefixes toward Google, and to announce Google prefixes toward Members via the route servers with AS10084 in the path.

For most peers who have direct peering or PNI’s toward google, this will have minimal operational impact. However as Google continues their policy of de-peering from exchanges, IAA’s content network is here to be your new primary or backup path. With 200G of capacity to begin over NSW-IX and a staged rollout to monitor traffic levels, we are excited to bring Googles routes back to NSW-IX peers with VIC-IX on the way!

How Google VPP works

Google customers need simple and highly available ways to reach publicly accessible Google services. Unfortunately Googles new policy is to de-peer from exchanges globally, and this means your Google traffic will traverse your transit or private interfaces. Google VPP permits IAA to re-announce the IX routes toward them and pass Googles routes toward the route servers with AS10084 in the path.

By connecting to the IAA exchanges where Google VPP is available, networks gain access to resilient Google edge infrastructure without needing to build or operate direct peering sessions themselves. Traffic is routed through dedicated, diverse and metro-redundant connectivity between IAA and Google, ensuring stable and reliable access to Google’s services.

If you have questions or need assistance contact us.