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Jeff McLaughlin

Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Jeff McLaughlin is a Principal TME for enterprise switching at Cisco. Jeff specializes in programmability and automation of Catalyst switches, and manages a team of TMEs working on Software Defined Access and Programmability. Prior to working at Cisco, Jeff was the network architect for corporate IT at Juniper Networks. He also worked in both pre and post-sales roles at a Cisco VAR, and as a routing protocols engineer at Cisco High Touch Technical Support. Jeff holds CCIE #14023 in Routing/Switching and Security, and JNCIE Service Provider #2332. Outside of network engineering, Jeff has a passion for ancient languages and has studied and taught Ancient Greek.

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July 30, 2018

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New Book on IOS XE Programmability Assumes No Software Development Experience

Network engineers are tasked with deploying, operating, and monitoring the network as efficiently, securely, and reliably as possible. As the complexity, scale, and security demands of the network increase, there is greater pressure on network engineers to reduce time to implement and minimize the r…

August 2, 2017

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The New Network – It’s for Developers!

With Open IOS XE, Cisco is Changing the Game Old-school network engineers probably remember the Cisco 2500-series router. It ran a slow Motorola 68000 CPU, the monolithic IOS operating system, and did one thing only: route packets.  Routers and switches have certainly sped up since then, and the ope…