October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
13h 5m
English
Peering is a layer 3 connectivity method. It provides connectivity to services such as G Suite, YouTube, and Google APIs with public IP addresses. It allows us to establish connectivity with higher availability and latency. Note that those connections exist outside of GCP. Peering has no maintenance costs and also comes in two flavors, as follows:
Direct peering offers 10 GBps connections per link established with GCP PoP, which are points where Google Networks connects with the rest of the internet. Carrier peering bandwidth depends on the provider. Note that peering provides no SLA.
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