Anyone know if Google will allow these to be installed at IXPs? $work (ISP) likely isn't large enough to warrant having one of these on our network but a bunch of us smaller ISPs all peer together at a private IXP (in Indianapolis) and our collective traffic levels almost certainly justify it.
Then again, with tens of gigabits to Chicago (where Google has a major datacenter) it probably isn't really necessary.
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion, not my employer's. Not representing anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google, and my team is implicated in this infrastructure.)
This stuff is designed to be able to go almost anywhere that's willing to host it under the standard contract. File a request, let the relevant team figure out if it's worth putting a rack in. Nothing bad can happen as a result of asking the question.
(Ah, "major datacenter" in Chicago. It's bad of me to be amused by this. We don't have anything we'd call a "datacenter" in Chicago, that's a small installation ;). The list is here: http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/)
Yeah, sorry, I know there isn't a "real" Google datacenter there (too late to "s/datacenter/presence/" on my original comment now). I don't technically have any of my own datacenters, but I'm present in a few, just like you guys have a "major" (to me) presence.
I've put them in a few ISP's over the years, they do support multiple ASN's to be served from a single cluster so don't see any technology limitation there.
The traffic requirements were around 2Gbps of peak Google traffic last time I checked with them, so you might actually qualify already, certainly not as restrictive as the Netflix caching servers where they want 10Gbps of peak traffic.
Think your main problem is that Chicago is so close...
Then again, with tens of gigabits to Chicago (where Google has a major datacenter) it probably isn't really necessary.