SPEAKER:  Vijay Gill, Manager, Production Network Engineering, Google

DATE:  November 2, 2007
TIME:  2:00pm-3:00pm
LOCATION:  Bren Hall 3011

TITLE:
The Realities of Production Network Operations

ABSTRACT:
Talk will cover the top problems we encounter in production network operations, designs we've come up with, what works and what fails.

BIO:
Vijay Gill is Manager, Production Network Engineering, at Google. He is responsible for network design, expansion and datacenter infrastructure for Googles production network, as well as participating in various industry organizations and advancing the company's efforts in the standards arena.  Additionally, Vijay serves as advisor to the IETF GROW working group and has co-authored a variety of RFCs on traffic engineering, multihoming, and routing. He has also given talks and presentations on network design, BGP scaling issues, and traffic engineering in forums such as NANOG and IETF.

Prior to joining Google, Vijay worked as Sr. Technical Manager for AOL Global Network Operations and was responsible for setting the technical direction and strategy for AOL production. Before AOL, Vijay worked as Manager of Architecture at MFN/Abovenet where he participated in revamping the global backbone, standardization of routing policy and product development. Earlier in his career, Vijay worked as a senior engineer at UUNET, participating in the MPLS and multicast engineering projects.

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For more information about the talk, please contact Xiaowei Yang
(xwy@ics.uci.edu)