In today’s interconnected world, organizations need to maintain control over their network identity while expanding across global infrastructure. Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) makes this possible by allowing you to use your own public IP address ranges over a provider’s network. Instead of relying solely on provider‑assigned IPs, you can retain ownership and control of your address space while benefiting from global reach and high‑performance routing. This approach ensures that your network identity remains consistent no matter where your applications or workloads are deployed.
What is BYOIP?
BYOIP allows you to advertise your own IP prefixes through a provider’s backbone network. You continue to own and manage your IP ranges while the provider announces them via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) from their infrastructure. This arrangement enables you to deploy workloads anywhere in the provider’s footprint without losing the IP address consistency that supports your operations, security, and user trust.
Why BYOIP matters
For many businesses, IP addresses are more than just network identifiers — they are tied to reputation, compliance requirements, and long‑standing customer integrations. With BYOIP, you can:
- Preserve the trust and reputation your IP space has built over time.
- Simplify migrations without requiring customers or partners to update allowlists or DNS records.
- Meet regional or industry regulations that mandate the use of specific IP address ranges.
Because you retain ownership of your IPs, you maintain operational control while benefiting from the reach and reliability of a global infrastructure partner.
How BYOIP works
The BYOIP process generally involves:
- Verifying IP ownership – Prove ownership of the IP range, typically by updating your Regional Internet Registry (RIR) records.
- Providing authorization – Authorize the provider to announce your IP prefixes from their network using BGP.
- Configuring routing – The provider advertises your IP range to the global internet from their edge locations, ensuring optimal traffic routing to your workloads.
- Integrating with services – Your IPs can then be assigned to workloads, content delivery endpoints, or edge compute instances just like provider‑assigned addresses.
BYOIP in practice
Organizations use BYOIP to expand infrastructure into new markets without disrupting existing network configurations or trusted IP lists. It also supports consistent service delivery across multiple regions, allowing users to connect to the same IP identity regardless of location. In disaster recovery and failover scenarios, BYOIP enables traffic redirection to alternate sites while preserving client‑facing IP addresses — minimizing downtime and avoiding costly reconfigurations.
BYOIP with Zenlayer
Zenlayer enables customers to extend their own IP space seamlessly across its global network. By announcing your IP prefixes through our infrastructure, you gain consistent IP identity combined with ultra‑low latency connectivity to users worldwide. This supports uninterrupted service delivery, preserves IP reputation, and helps you meet compliance and regulatory needs while benefiting from our performance and coverage.
For more information, check out our documentation on BYOIP.
Key takeaways
BYOIP blends control over your network identity with the scalability and performance of a global platform. For organizations that depend on trusted IP space, it provides a way to expand services, simplify migrations, and maintain compliance — all without sacrificing flexibility or performance.