The UISP Broadband Wireless Admin course is a two-day, in-class training course that teaches the most important concepts in Outdoor Wireless Networking, with special emphasis on how to design, build, manage, and troubleshoot WISP networks. Course materials & lab activities teach with airOS-8 using airMAX AC equipment.

Course Outline

RF Theory

Frequency vs. Propagation
Unlicensed Bands
OFDM Spectral Masks
Licensed Frequencies
Decibels in RF Systems
Free Space Path Loss
EIRP
Line of Sight & Fresnel Zones
Link Power Budgets
Fade Margin

Radio Operation

Standard RF Circuit
Carrier Signals
Radio Sensitivity
Radio Selectivity
Signal, Noise & Interference
Chains, Data Rates & MIMO
Thermal Noise
Channel Flexing
airPrism Technology
Modulation, EVM & Data Rates

Antenna Theory

What is Gain?
Isotropic Radiators
Antenna Function
Gain, Efficiency & VSWR
Gain, Surface Area & Directivity
Polar Plots
MIMO, Polarization & XPD
Types of Antennas
Antenna Alignment
Downtilt, Lobes & Nulls

Ubiquiti Service Providers

TDMA & airMAX Protocol
802.11, CSMA/CA & Indoor
Problem of Hidden Node
airMAX-AC, airOS-6 & -8
Traffic Shaping & Burst
Scalability vs. Performance
Security & VLANs
airFiber Technology & Protocols
airOS Tools & Redudancy
Bridged vs. Routed ISP

Alabama

UISP: UBWA – Pelham, AL

Mikrotik: MTCNA + MTCRE – Pelham, AL

UISP: UBWS – Pelham, AL