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Ada Jastrzębska
Ada Jastrzębska
Product Manager
Oct 5, 2026 1:56 PM UTC
News

What’s New: Customer ASN Support for Equinix Internet Access

Related products:Equinix Internet Access (EIA)Feature Enhancement

Customers can now use their own Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) with Equinix Internet Access (EIA), providing greater flexibility for advanced routing and BGP configurations.

What’s New:

  • Support for customer-owned ASNs with Equinix Internet Access
  • Greater flexibility for advanced routing and BGP use cases
  • Simplified integration with existing customer network architectures

Why it Matters:

  • Enables customers to maintain consistent routing policies across their network environments
  • Supports more advanced networking and BGP deployment scenarios
  • Provides increased control and flexibility when connecting to the internet through EIA

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    7 replies

    vijay.busam
    New Participant
    Oct 19, 2026 1:48 PM UTC

    Does this allow us to use a private ASN, or is a public ASN required? If Private ASN supports, can it support 4 byte private ASN as well. 

      rcarrara
      Community Manager
      Oct 19, 2026 3:27 PM UTC

      You still have the ability to use a private ASN. Equinix will assign the a private 2-byte or 4-byte ASN. (The customer can choose 2 or 4 byte but Equinix will choose the private ASN.)

      If you have your own PI addressing and choose a private ASN you will need to create appropriate route objects (ROs) with the relevant RIR or IRR using Equinix’s public ASN, 15830.

        J_Shin
        Employee
        Oct 20, 2026 2:59 PM UTC

        Hi -

        to confirm, the snip from our documentation… which references (I assume - no longer a requirement) the need for a customer to use our assigned private ASN and the ability/need to configure “BGP Local AS” is not required per the announcement?  

         

         

        vijay.busam
        New Participant
        Oct 27, 2026 6:33 AM UTC

        Does EIA support advertising the same /24 network from two different locations while routing an individual /28 subnet to a specific location?

         

        For example, we use 103.124.125.0/24 in both Melbourne and Sydney and advertise this /24 from both locations. Internally, traffic for the /24 is routed to Sydney regardless of whether it enters through the Sydney or Melbourne internet ingress, except for a specific /28 subnet, which is routed to Melbourne even when traffic enters through Sydney.

         

        Can EIA support the same routing model? 

         

         

        rcarrara
        Community Manager
        Oct 29, 2026 4:43 PM UTC

        Hello ​@vijay.busam. Yes, EIA will advertise the more specific prefix within the EIA network.

        Go ahead and advertise the /24 from both locations and the /28 only from Melbourne. Traffic entering Sydney that is destined to a host within the /28 will be routed over our backbone and delivered to your peer in Melbourne. (Just like you depict in your drawing.)

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