[noAnswer]

You know who else is gold partner and at IXes?!

Inter.link! https://inter.link/google-verified-peering-provider/

"As Google discontinues its direct peering agreements at Internet Exchanges worldwide"

Wait... does that mean that "Google is killing the open internet?!" Quick "write" a AI rage bait article about it.

[PhilKunz]

I've learned quite a bit from the comments here, also got to see perspectives I wasn't focusing on. I've since then added a bit to the article about how one could be in favour of the deal. To be more transparent about changes, version history is coming to coffee.link.

The question I'm having is: Where exactly do inter.link and Google peer? Like either they are both at a public IXP (which would mean Google is not actually discontinuing peering, or you'd have to really define the "direct" in that quoted sentence), or one has a fiber cable to one of the others DC? How does that work? Any insights?

[inemesitaffia]

An ixp is a switching fabric not a building(NAP).

At the same building where you connected with Vodafone in the past, you connect to interlink instead.

Instead of one to many you connect one to one.

Just to clarify one thing, the fact that's you're connected to an ixp doesn't automatically mean you have to accept any routes or traffic over it. And yes some of them allow you to sell/buy transit over the IXP fabric so instead of buying one connection for transit and another for settlement free pairing over the IXP, you do all that over one physical connection