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.

5G Neutral Host: Solving Enterprise Cellular Coverage Gaps

Cellular coverage inside enterprise buildings still kind of sucks. But that's what Celona is positioned to solve. We’ve been solving the problem with Wi-Fi and DAS for too long, and it shows. Mostly due to poor deployments. Whether you’re walking through a hospital corridor or

Cisco team that presented at MFD13

Network Assurance Doesn’t Stop at Visibility

A network engineer isn't thinking about network assurance while clicking through five pages within a dashboard at 2 a.m. trying to find out why the network isn't working. If you’ve been there, you understand the frustration of managing and maintaining a reliable network infrastructure

Cisco Unveil's Meraki Campus Gateway: A Cloud-Managed Overlay for Complex Networks

When you think of Meraki, you think of simplicity. Zero-touch provisioning. Clean dashboards. Minimal complexity. And then Cisco announced the Meraki Campus Gateway (MCG). The simplicity model begins to break down in large campus environments—such as universities, hospitals, and distributed enterprises—where mobility, high availability, and centralized control

From AIOps to Autonomous Networking

AI isn't a feature, it's an organizational strategy. Juniper Networks is not only embedding AI into the platform (Marvis), but also into their support structure and company culture. Ticket deflection, root cause analysis, and issue resolution are becoming part of a closed-loop learning system. Other

Marvis Minis and the Rise of Distributed Observability

Sensorless visibility is uniquely positioned in enterprise networking. Juniper introduced a Marvis Minis and just extended the capabilities beyond your network. There is now application visibility, client-to-cloud, across regional points of presence (PoPs), proactively performing synthetic testing for real-time visibility from the client to the cloud. No

The Power of Real-World Experience in Juniper Mist AI Certifications

The Power of Real-World Experience in Juniper Mist AI Certifications

Imagine walking into a certification exam with no studying, no preparation, and only your day-to-day experience to take on this exam. Sounds intimidating, doesn’t it? That was exactly what happened when I attended the Juniper Champions Summit. By the end of the day, I had not one,

Smarter, Faster, More Affordable: Juniper EX4000

Disclosure: This blog post is sponsored by Juniper Networks. If you’re a network engineer or IT decision-maker responsible for maintaining critical networks, then you’re going to want to hear about how the Juniper Networks EX4000 can help turn complex connectivity into simplified and easy to manage networks.