One thing that is not immediately apparent from looking at BGP tables and peering relationships is the business relationship between various ASes. Which can be entirely opaque. Obviously they have a lot going on with Hurricane as a primary upstream transit provider. How much money is involved we have no idea, and we also have no idea what kind of "special" relationship the Google Fiber people have going on behind the scenes with Hurricane.
Also Google Fiber is a few isolated pockets of connectivity in the cities it serves, it's not actually that big as compared to the scale of a huge residential last mile ISP like Comcast, Shaw, Centurylink, RCN, Charter/Spectrum, etc.
Rather than the HE BGP analysis page a better point of view to get an idea of google fiber's IX point presences, etc, would be peeringdb.
https://bgp.he.net/AS15169
One thing that is not immediately apparent from looking at BGP tables and peering relationships is the business relationship between various ASes. Which can be entirely opaque. Obviously they have a lot going on with Hurricane as a primary upstream transit provider. How much money is involved we have no idea, and we also have no idea what kind of "special" relationship the Google Fiber people have going on behind the scenes with Hurricane.
Also Google Fiber is a few isolated pockets of connectivity in the cities it serves, it's not actually that big as compared to the scale of a huge residential last mile ISP like Comcast, Shaw, Centurylink, RCN, Charter/Spectrum, etc.
Rather than the HE BGP analysis page a better point of view to get an idea of google fiber's IX point presences, etc, would be peeringdb.
https://www.peeringdb.com/net/5063
It should also be noted that google fiber also now owns Webpass through acquisition, which is its own pre-existing AS
https://www.peeringdb.com/net/19