Monday, December 14, 2015

Google Fiber - Large increase in IPv4 address space

Google Fiber is gearing up to provide access for many more users.

Before October 6th, 2015 Google Fiber owned eight IPv4 address blocks totaling around ~147 thousand IPv4 addresses. On October 6th, 2015 Google Fiber acquired the /11 IPv4 address block 136.32.0.0/11. Google Fiber first began announcing this new address block to the global BGP table on November 24th, 2015.
This /11 address block adds an additional ~2.1 million IPv4 addresses.