India, Dec. 5 -- Google's incoming networking head, Bikash Koley, sent us a quick message outlining his responsibilities, and they're enough to keep him busy.

"I'll take ownership of everything networking at Google outside of the clusters, which are really part of Google's compute [infrastructure]," says Koley, currently finishing out his term as CTO at Juniper through January 3. He then returns to Google, where he previously worked for nearly ten years, as VP and head of global networking.

That's an impressive title, and Koley's responsibilities match it -- from inter-cluster communication to intercontinental subsea cables, and everything in between.

His mandate includes everything related to inter-cluster connectivity, campus networkin...