Bikash Koley
Bikash is currently the Vice President of Google Global Networking (GGN). Bikash’s team is responsible for design, development, build and operation of Google’s massive global network that every Google service and the Google Cloud Platform relies upon. The GGN team develops the cutting edge intent driven networking technologies that allow Google's global WAN to be zero touch, builds out some of the largest scale SDN infrastructure ever deployed (B4, Espresso), scales Google's global CDN that fuels Youtube and all other Google services and expands the reach of Google's network by building the highest capacity submarine cables and the most programmable terrestrial optical networks. This infra is also the core network that underpins of all Google cloud services.
Prior to this, Bikash was the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Juniper Networks. In this role, Bikash charted Juniper’s technology strategy and led the execution of the company’s critical technology innovations. Specifically, Bikash was responsible for Juniper’s telco cloud and virtualization, multicloud enterprise datacenter and software defined enterprise networking products and technologies.
Prior to Juniper, Bikash spent close to ten years at Google, where he was a Distinguished Engineer and the Head of Network Architecture, Engineering and Planning.
Bikash received a BTech from IIT, India; and MS and PhD degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park, all in Electrical Engineering.
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A Decentralized SDN Architecture for the WAN
Nitika Saran
Ashok Narayanan
Sylvia Ratnasamy
Ankit Singla
Hakim Weatherspoon
2024 ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM) (2024)
Experiences with Modeling Network Topologies at Multiple Levels of Abstraction
Martin Pool
Xiaoxue Zhao
17th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) (2020)
Taking the Edge off with Espresso: Scale, Reliability and Programmability for Global Internet Peering
Matthew Holliman
Gary Baldus
Marcus Hines
TaeEun Kim
Ashok Narayanan
Victor Lin
Colin Rice
Brian Rogan
Bert Tanaka
Manish Verma
Puneet Sood
Mukarram Tariq
Dzevad Trumic
Vytautas Valancius
Calvin Ying
Mahesh Kallahalla
Sigcomm (2017)
The Zero Touch Network
International Conference on Network and Service Management (2016) (to appear)
Capacity planning for the Google backbone network
Ajay Kumar Bangla
Ben Preskill
Emilie Danna
Xiaoxue Zhao
ISMP 2015 (International Symposium on Mathematical Programming) (to appear)
Software Defined Networking at Scale
Light Reading (2014), pp. 22
The Prospect of Inter-Data-Center Optical Networks
Xiaoxue Zhao
Vijay Vusirikala
Valey Kamalov
IEEE Communication Magazine, 51 (2013), pp. 32-38
Drivers and applications of optical technologies for Internet Data Center networks
Paul Schultz
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, pp. 1-3
