Cogwheel is the consulting activity of Bob Coggeshall.  His personal obsession with electronics began at the dawn of the microcomputer era in the late 70's. He has been working with UNIX technology since the first version was released from Bell Labs around the same time. As a UNIX systems adminstrator during the 80's he delved into TCP/IP technologies before it became the basis of the Internet. He combined his growing software and networking knowledge with electronics by designing and developing his own dial-up internet router before they became commercially available..

In 1992 he moved to Hong Kong where he co-founded Hong Kong Supernet (now Pacific Supernet) Today, Supernet is among the largest and most respected of the Hong Kong ISPs. He went on to consult for Sprint International on location in mainland China deploying the first public Internet. During this time he was asked to speak and provide opinion on the Internet industry to the Asian Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review.

In 1996, Bob moved to Seattle where he took on a variety of UNIX-related software development assignments. From 1999 through 2002, he worked for an internet firewall vendor where he served first as a senior software developer and then as their R&D manager. Two patents are pending for algorithms he developed. 

In 2003 Bob returned to focus full-time on his consulting business.

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