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Bob has more than 20 years experience in data networking, including campus LAN/WAN, wireless, SD-WAN, data center networking, software-defined networking, and network security. His career spans time in enterprise IT shops, a stint working for a voice and data equipment OEM, and for the last 15 years Bob has been in the solutions integrator/reseller market.

In his roles with integrators, Bob has provided hands-on network implementation services as well as pre-sales network design and architecture and been responsible for developing go-to-market strategies, building pre-sales solution engineering teams, and growing networking business at his employers. Currently, Bob is a player/coach SE manager at a large IT solutions integrator where he runs a hard-working team of dedicated SEs.

Bob grew up in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. He began earning networking certifications while still in college and holds a Cisco CCIE certification as well as numerous other certifications from major industry vendors.

Bob still lives in the Philadelphia region with his wife of over 20 years and his two children. In his spare time he likes to hike with his dog Indiana, volunteer in his community to support his children’s activities, tinkers with home automation, and collects and restores classic arcade video games from the 1980s and 1990s.


23 Links with Tag @BobMcCouch

  1. Coverage: Zero-Trust Network Segmentation: Why I’m Intrigued by Elisity’s Approach
  2. Tech Field Day Podcast: Snowflake Networks are Built to Break
  3. Coverage: A Flexible Approach to Campus-Wide Zero-Trust Networking
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  10. Coverage: Managing the Network as a Fabric — About Time!
  11. Coverage: Dell Aims for the Clouds with Z9500 Spine
  12. Coverage: Show 184 – The Future of Networking Part 2 as Inspired by #NFD7
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  14. Coverage: Server Brawn + Switch Brains = Infrastructure Fabric
  15. Coverage: Goodbye Snowpocalypse, Hello Networking Field Day 7!
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  18. Coverage: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure: Nexus 9000
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  20. Coverage: Spirent Avalanche NEXT – Making Network Testing Approachable
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  22. Coverage: Openly Passionate
  23. Coverage: Show 153 – Cisco Live 2013 Roundtable Discussion with Tech Field Day