India, Oct. 16 -- When Bikash Koley jumped ship from Google to become the CTO of Juniper Networks in mid-2017, it was considered quite a win for the networking firm. Koley, who had been Google's head of network architecture, engineering and planning, was considered an expert on software-defined networking (SDN). In fact, he oversaw Google's SDN transformation and designed Google's production network infrastructure including its data center and backbone network, among other things.
More than two years later, Koley is now charting Juniper's technological future. In advance of the company's annual customer conference, Koley talked with Light Reading about Juniper's SD-WAN moves, the importance of the network edge, and how the company is banki...