Rowell Dionicio

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Rowell Dionicio

San Diego, CA

Founder of Packet6. CWNE #210. Host of Clear To Send. I write about enterprise IT from the operator's perspective and the gap between what vendors promise and what your team actually has to build and run.

XML Basics for DevNet

XML Basics for DevNet

Understanding the basic concepts of the XML format and the content it contains will be important when dealing with APIs and writing scripts. I continue my series in studying for the Cisco DevNet Associate certification. XML stands for Extensible Markup Language and is a way to describe sets of data.

DevNet Associate Challenge

DevNet Associate Challenge

For over a year I’ve been making excuses when it comes to learning how to code. In the beginning I had chosen Python as my coding language of choice. Now we have the DevNet Associate certification! With the announcement of the new Cisco DevNet certifications, I’ve kicked around

YAML Basics for DevNet

YAML Basics for DevNet

Taking a look at the Cisco DevNet Associate exam topics (DEVASC 200-901), one of the first objectives is to compare different data formats. Those data formats you should be able to compare are XML, JSON, and YAML. To start, I decided to take a look at YAML and what

WLPC Prague - Community At Its Best

WLPC Prague - Community At Its Best

After a total of fourteen and a half hours from San Jose, California I had found myself in Prague. A couple of firsts for me. First time in Prague and a first time attendee at WLPC. With the sun setting, I made it to NH Hotel located at Mozartova 261/

A Day of Warehouse Wi-Fi

A Day of Warehouse Wi-Fi

Rudely, the shrieks of my iPhone alarm awaken me. Like a Drill Seargent barging into the barracks, it shocks me. It's 4:15 AM at the Fairfield Inn. In-the-middle-of-nowhere Pennsylvania. I stumble out of bed to the rough stubble of the carpet on the

A Company Of One

A Company Of One

In 2017, I decided to incorporate a business. Focused on wireless professional services, I had been receiving enough work to make it a structured entity. That’s when the business was registered online though, INCfile.com, as a single member LLC. Why an LLC? My business really started in San

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Identifying OWE Transition Mode with Wireshark

Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE) will hopefully start entering the market to help secure open wireless networks. We’re getting a glimpse of it through Aruba Networks and Cisco. With the C9800-CL and C9115 AP, I was able to get basic configuration done to enable OWE Transition Mode. OWE Transition