I'm not sure what they are actually using this for.
All Starlink customer traffic egresses via Google's network, and all their ground stations are along Google fiber paths.
All Starlink customer traffic egresses via Google's network, and all their ground stations are along Google fiber paths.
actually most of their earth stations are colocated near long haul dwdm regen huts from older, more traditional big telco players like what is now lumen (former qwest/centurylink), level3, zayo, etc. The fact that they can buy transport circuits from those huts to the nearest major cities to meet google is useful.
by no means does google really own/run/control most of the long haul dark fiber and dwdm networks in north america. or even a good portion of it. the predecessor entities that have now been rolled up into lumen or zayo do.
Starlink is buying transport circuits from the traditional telcos who operate on the route to get to a major city with a Google POP.
Like, if you go out to the Prosser Regen hut site and starlink earth station, that's all legacy level3, now lumen.
You get much better prices if Google can see you already have most of your own infrastructure set up and ready to migrate to with not much effort.
That’s not true. Customers that were getting public IPs without CGNAT were coming from a non-Google ASN.
[1] https://cloud.google.com/network-connectivity/docs/router/ho...
My two Starlink terminals respectfully disagree. It has been mentioned numerous times on the Starlink forums. It's IP space previously used by Google Station.
it really depends on where you are and whether your terminal has been selected by (some unknown criteria) for spacex's network topology changes.