I hope this message finds you well. We have heard from a number of MICE members about congestion on Google's port to MICE so I wanted to provide a brief update to our peers on what our plans are. 

We are aware of the congestion on our current 100G port to MICE and started planning for a 2nd 100G port back in Q3 of 2020. For those of you not aware, the Google router that is connected to MICE is located in Chicago and we use a third party vendor to reach the MICE switch. We have been experiencing long delays with our vendor for our 2nd 100G wave and currently plan to have the 2nd 100G up at MICE in early February. This 2nd 100G link will be on a diverse Google router with a separate IP and plan to peer with the route server on this new link. 

While our port is congested you may see traffic inbound to your network on indirect paths. While we attempt to deliver all traffic directly, we can't offer any guarantee on where traffic will come from during congestion. 

If you happen to experience quality problems with any Google service over MICE during this congestion please do report these product specific issues to [log in to unmask] so we can investigate. Our CDN is normally able to handle congestion so we would like to be aware if any members are experiencing any degradation of Google services.

Many Thanks,

Dave