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| Title | Summary |
Author |
Time | Language | Updated |
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| Workshop Handout For Building Wokbolic & Neighbourhood Network (Indonesian) |
Workshop handout written by e-goen on Wokbolic e-goen & neighbourhood network in Indonesian. |
e-goen | 4 hours | Indonesian | 11 Oct 08 |
| Networking Basics |
An introduction to TCP/IP networking. Material includes: |
Christian Benvenuti | English | 14 Aug 08 | |
| Introduction to Lab Safety |
Basic laboratory safety procedures. |
Carlo Fonda, Marco Zennaro | English | 14 Aug 08 | |
| Networking Basics |
This lecture introduces some basic concepts related to modern computer networking: reasons to build a computer network, standardisation, OSI model, network layers in theory and practice, classification and topology of networks, media and hardware (ethernet), IP addressing, subnetting, DNS, basic network configuration of a PC. |
Carlo Fonda, Marco Zennaro | 90 minutes | 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 |
| Intro to RF and dB math |
Slideshow presented at AfNOG 2009 in Cairo, Egypt. It is a very quick introduction to the physical basis of telecommunications, many concepts are briefly introduced, like i.e.: e.m. waves (amplitude, frequency, ...), RF signals (power, modulation, ...), power measurement, spectrum analysis, dB (math, examples, Alexander Bell). |
Carlo Fonda, Marco Zennaro | 30 minutes | English | 19 Sep 09 |
| Radio Propagation and Link Budget |
This slideshow was presented at AfNOG 2009, in Cairo (Egypt). It is a brief introduction to radiopropagation (behavior of radiowaves, effects of the environment, line of sight, Fresnel zone) and to link budget calculation (link planning, power budget, sensitivity and gain, losses, software tools). It is provided in both Adobe PDF format and Apple Keynote original source. |
Carlo Fonda, Marco Zennaro | 45 minutes | English | 19 Sep 09 |
| Antenna basics |
This lecture provides a "short and simple" introduction to antennas (for WiFi at 2.4 and 5 GHz), with rough definition of terminology and characteristics of simple antennas (omni, directive, reflector) |
Carlo Fonda | 45 minutes | English | 15 Oct 08 |
| Introduction to Radiowaves and Basic RF Measurements |
This very short lecture consists of two parts: the first part (15 minutes) is a basic introduction to radiowaves and RF signals, with definitions and terminology (frequency, wavelength, phase, amplitude, power, interference, modulation). |
Carlo Fonda | 30 minutes | English | 15 Oct 08 |