Earn recognition for your proficiency of Ubiquiti's products, platforms, and services.

Since 2012, Ubiquiti Academy’s certification program has rapidly expanded, overseeing the training of more than 50,000 students worldwide. Choose from different UniFi and UISP courses as you start to develop your career in the dynamically evolving world of IT networking, and operator technologies. 

The UISP Wireless Specialist (UBWS) is Ubiquiti’s one-day, in-class airMAX/airfiber training course for applied learning and entry-level certification.  Be introduced to Ubiquiti’s powerful wireless products, learn best practices in outdoor wireless networking, and get hands-on practice with airMAX Ac equipment in an instructor-led classroom. 

Course Outline

The Ubiquiti Network

  • WISP Past & Present
  • Service Providers
  • UISP Management

Point-to-Point Links

  • Radios & Antennas
  • Ubiquiti airOS
  • Wireless Settings
  • Link Planning
  • Link Characteristics

Point-to-MultiPoint Links

  • airMAX TDMA Protocol
  • Best Practices for PtMP Network

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 who to design, build, manage, and troubleshoot WISP networks. Course materials and 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