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| Title | Summary | Author |
Time |
Language | Updated |
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| dB math and Link Budget Calculation |
This presentation is on dB math (why do we use dBs?, examples of calculations with dBs, etc) and on Link Budget Calculation (how far can a wireless link go?, what gain should my antenna have, etc). |
Marco Zennaro, Carlo Fonda | 1 hour | English | 15 Oct 08 |
| Wireless needs (work) |
subtitle: Do we need wireless? Wireless needs a lot of work! ;) ...Wireless networks: "why, when and where" of WLANs
This is a "not-very-serious lecture" for introducing issues and benefits of wireless networking (it also contains some polls/questionnaires to check the background knowledge of the audience) |
Carlo Fonda, Marco Zennaro | 1 hour | English | 15 Oct 08 |
| Open training on wireless |
This presentation summarize the experience of 7 years of training on wireless networking at the ICTP (Trieste, Italy). |
Carlo Fonda, Marco Zennaro | 1 hour | English | 15 Oct 08 |
| Spread Spectrum radio technologies |
This lecture is a theoretical introduction to the "spread spectrum" technology, with simple examples to understand how it works. It discusses the difference between SS and narrow-band radio, and between direct sequence and frequency hopping SS. There are also two short appendixes on Antenna Basics and Power Budget Calculation. |
Fulvio Postogna, Carlo Fonda | 1 hour | English | 15 Oct 08 |
| WirelessWeb |
A crazy lecture on "why web developers should care about wireless networking", presented at a conference on web technologies. It presents briefly (20 minutes) what wireless networking is (with some hints on mobile web browsing), then discuss about "ZeroConf" (10 minutes) and finally introduces the basics of web-designing with XHTML and CSS. |
Carlo Fonda | 1 hour | English | 15 Oct 08 |
| Tecnologia apropiada para redes comunitarias |
Conferencia inaugural de WALC2008, Escuela Latinoamericana de Redes, Universidad de los Andes, Merida, Venezuela 10 de noviembre 2008. Vision de los factores que favorecen las soluciones inalambricas como la tecnologia mas conveniente para el despliegue de redes comunitarias. |
Ermanno Pietrosemoli | 1 hour | Spanish | 20 Nov 08 |
| Practica de dimensionamiento de sistemas de energia fotovoltaica |
Resumen de los factores a considerar para cuantificar el numero de paneles fotovoltaicos y la cantidad de baterias necesarios para satisfacer los requerimientos de alimentacion de una estacion de telecomunicaciones con energia fotovoltaica. |
Ermanno Pietrosemoli | 1 hour | Spanish | 27 Jan 09 |
| Introduction to WiFi |
This is a basic introduction to using WiFi for wide area networks. Link types (point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, etc.) as well as radio operating modes (master, managed, ad-hoc) are covered.
Given at AfNOG 2009 (Cairo).
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Rob Flickenger | 1 hour | English | 24 May 09 |
| Creating local Debian/Ubuntu repositories with apt-mirror |
Short guide on how to create, configure and use local Ubuntu repositories.
This might need more detail and examples. Please feel free to comment and improve! |
sebastian buettrich | 1 hour | English | 25 Aug 09 |
| Comparative Use of Unlicensed Radio Spectrum |
Visualizing how different devices make use of the available radio spectrum.
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Rob Flickenger | 1/2 hour | English | 8 Oct 08 |