The Global Networking (GN) team is responsible for the design, development, build and operation of the networks that connect our data centers to our customers.
About the team
The Global Networking (GN) team is responsible for the design, development, build and operation of Google’s global network that every Google service, including the Google Cloud Platform, runs on. We develop cutting-edge networking technologies that allow Google's global WAN to be zero touch, builds out some of the largest scale Software Defined Networks (SDNs) infrastructure ever deployed (B4, Espresso), scales Google's global Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that supports Google services, develops sophisticated software systems for network capacity forecasting, planning and optimization.
We continuously expand the reach of Google's network across the world laying new optical fibers and building hundreds of points of presence worldwide. This global footprint allows us to optimize the end-to-end speed and reliability of the traffic that we carry for our users and for Google Cloud customers, delivering optimal performance.
In doing all this, we rely on the most advanced techniques in network hardware and software, traffic engineering, and network management to deliver unprecedented scale, availability and performance at industry leading cost points. We are embracing modern data analytics and machine learning to drive efficiency and optimization.
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Featured publications
17th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) (2020)
Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE, Beijing, China (2020)
Journal of Optical Communications (2020)
17th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2020
NANOG (2018)
ACM Queue, vol. 14, September-October (2016), pp. 20 - 53
13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 16), USENIX Association, Santa Clara, CA (2016), pp. 523-535
Proceedings of the 22th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, ACM, San Francisco, CA, USA (2016)