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| Title | Summary | Author | Time |
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| 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 |
| Network management with Nagios |
Wireless networks, just like any other network, need management and monitoring. |
Sebastian Buettrich | 2 hours with lab | English | 30 Aug 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 |
| Wireless Security and Monitoring |
A combined wireless security and network monitoring talk that covers 802.11 security features, encryption basics, and open source security and monitoring tools.
Given at AfNOG 2009 (Cairo).
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Rob Flickenger | 2 hours | English | 24 May 09 |
| A long-distance link in Malawi |
A case study of the 2008 ICTP / Blantyre Polytechnic / Blantyre College of Medicine joint project to build a long distance WiFi network. The network connects Blantyre to Mangochi, spanning a distance of about 160 km.
Given at AfNOG 2009 (Cairo).
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Rob Flickenger, Steve Okay, Carlo Fonda, Ermanno Pietrosemoli, Marco Zennaro, Anthony Muyepa | 30 minutes | 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 |
| 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 |