Thinking of moving to ⛅️ cloud-managed Wi-Fi but can’t re-architect your campus? Cisco Meraki’s new Campus Gateway (MCG) lets you 👨‍💻 tunnel WLAN traffic via VXLAN 🎛️use QUIC for control ⚖️HA with AP load-balancing. 🔗 rowelldionicio.com/cisco-unveil... #MFD13

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 begi…

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Marvis Minis extend beyond the local network. Insights into client-to-cloud experience. We're in the world of end user application experience. Juniper Networks is now extending into regional CDN PoPs to provide us more visibility into what's happening. #MFD13 rowelldionicio.com/marvis-minis...

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,…

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Juniper’s AI journey—from data collection to Marvis’ auto-remediation—shows what’s possible. Marvis isn’t just observability. It acts. 1️⃣ Fixes issues automatically 2️⃣ Speeds ops via conversation 3️⃣ Your smart network assistant rowelldionicio.com/from-aiops-t... #MFD13

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. Tic…

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Tales from the real-world - a conversation with François on the Clear to Send podcast about troubleshooting Wi-Fi issues that do not turn out to be Wi-Fi issues at all!

CTS 355: Exposing the Real Wi-Fi Issue

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Wi-Fi 7 access points are here - but is it worth the upgrade? We've been hearing about the promises it brings: ✅ Lower latency for your mission-critical apps ✅ Multi-Link Operation (MLO) for more efficient connections ✅ Higher capacity for IoT & high density environments

You ever cross your fingers when rebooting a switch remotely? Wish you had faster boot times! Juniper Networks came out with the EX4000 with a 2 minute boot time! ⏱️ What’s the longest you’ve waited for a switch to reboot? I’m curious who’s got the longest wait! #sponsored

Trying hashcat to recover a WPA2 PSK from a pcap containing a 4-way handshake. Do I know what I’m doing? Probably not. Just trying to help someone out.

Update your NetAlly tools to v2.7 to discover Wi-Fi 7 networks! Just in time for some Wi-Fi 7 testing I will be doing soon. Features in 2.7: 🛜 Wi-Fi 7 Visibility 🧪 AutoTest improvements 🤝 Wired test enhancements 📍 AirMapper improvements 🐞 Bug fixes

My Sunday routine: ☕️ Multiple cups of coffee ✍️ Writing to reflect on the previous and upcoming week 📈 Update our company scorecard

Today’s agenda: 🏌️‍♂️Driving range 🛻 Clean my truck 💁‍♂️ Organize my office 🚴‍♀️ Teach my daughter to ride a bike ⚾️ Practice baseball with my son 🍺 Have a beer and take a nap

Wi-Fi validation surveys help to provide a view of what Wi-Fi looks like in a given space. I always recommend completing one. Also check with your eyes. Are APs mounted correctly? Is the Ethernet plugged in? If so, is the cable plugged into the right access point port?

Had everything go wrong with this network deployment but we got basic internet and Wi-Fi up and running. Then I had to jet ✈️

Isn’t it amazing how we can transport bits as a laser that bounces around super thin glass across long distances at high capacity? Fiber is a wonderful technology. Also, always carry a fiber cleaner with you. I forgot mine 🤦‍♂️

I feel like I’m forgetting something. And as I’m on the plane to my destination, it hit me. I don’t have my labeler. This is why a checklist is important.

Thinking about a career in IT? Start with networking fundamentals. It’s the backbone of everything. It’s in the cloud, powering overlays, and running on every device. Nail networking, and you’ll pick up new tech faster and solve problems like a pro.

Single day trip from San Diego to San Francisco. A final interview with a candidate at a coffee shop and the rest of the day filled with client work. Touchdown back home before midnight.

Rushed to finished an order on Dec 31st ‘24. Sent the shipping address to the distributor. But my PO to them had our mailing address. When you move too quickly you make mistakes but luckily it worked out. Got a truck in November and moved everything easily & in one trip to a secure location.

Todays plan: Water the plants ✅ Eat cheesecake Play video games w/ my daughter Teach my daughter to ride a bike Read Contagious

My thoughts on simple network monitoring with Zabbix. rowelldionicio.com/simple-netwo... 🗺️ Distributed monitoring - w/ Zabbix proxies at remote sites 🚨 Alerting - trigger thresholds & actions to Slack & PagerDuty 🔗 Integration - with multiple platforms like Jira How are you managing monitoring?

A bit of nostalgia after coming across the CWNP 2018 Wi-Fi Trek conference booklet. It was hosted in San Diego, my hometown, and I had the pleasure of speaking about my journey to become CWNE certified.

When reading release notes, I really like it when vendors add in details about what their fixing. Thank you @ubiquiti.bsky.social

Every time I complete my overall task goals I feel pretty good. This week has been very productive with handling things like 🛜 Wi-Fi validation survey reports 🤑 Auditing expenses 🔗 Integrating cloud applications

Locked in a big sale for us right before the ball dropped for the New Year. It was down to the last few hours of 2024. I have to say thanks to the partnership with Juniper and Ingram Micro for getting it past the finish line. Celebrated last night with my wife 🥳 What a way to end the year!

A Freshworks report shows workers wanting to leverage AI to take care of tedious boring tasks. What part of your job would you happily have AI do for you?

All the technical skills I worked on last year that I’ll be taking to the next level: 🔒Palo Alto Networks NGFW -> to self-serve and automation 🔀 JUNOS -> to automation of switches 🛜 UniFi -> to multitenant dashboard 🛜 Wi-Fi 6 -> migrate thousands of APs to Wi-Fi 7

Thank you for the challenge coin @techfieldday.com. I appreciate the opportunity of being a Delegate.

Started the first day of the year doing the same thing I've done the last 365 days. Taking time to write and relax.

5 lessons learned in 2024 and goals for 2025. One thing is for sure. I'm going to be super selfish next year. rowelldionicio.com/5-lessons-le...

5 Lessons Learned in 2024 & Goals for 2025

2024 was a whirlwind. I started the year with ambitious goals and a clear vision of where I wanted to be by December. But as the months unfolded, I learned some hard lessons about leadership, burno…

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Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday 😁

Some days you’re stuck in meetings and by the end of it all you can finally get real work done. But by then it’s the end of the day. Pushing tasks over to tomorrow 💼