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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 10,000 students worldwide. Today, Ubiquiti offers seven different courses with varying scope and level of expertise so you can begin or develop your career in the Broadband (ISP), Enterprise, and Solar industries.

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UniFi Network Specialist is a one-day introduction course to the UniFi Controller with emphasis on server administration as well as device, site & network management. Hands-on labs reinforce knowledge of Controller best practices, remote device adoption techniques, as well as use cases for the built-in Guest Portal & Hotspot Manager.

Course Outline

Intro to UniFi Controller

Server Administration

UniFi Device Management

Basic Site & Network Design

Guest Portal & Hotspot Manager


The Ubiquiti Enterprise Wireless Admin course is a two-day, in-class training course focused on the most important concepts in Enterprise Wireless Networking, with special emphasis on best practices for designing/managing UniFi WLANs. Learn with hands-on lab activities using the latest generation of UniFi APs, as well as the UniFi Controller platform.

Course Outline

WLAN Fundamentals

  • Unlicensed Radio Spectrum
  • Channel Operation
  • Regulatory Domains
  • WLAN Standards
  • Wireless Access Methods
  • Network Equipment

WLAN Planning

  • Wireless Technology
  • Coverage & Channels
  • TX Power
  • Antenna Gain
  • Channel Availability
  • Signals vs. Noise
  • Airtime, Capacity & Density
  • Mixed Networks

Deployment

  • Site Surveys
  • Overlap
  • Wiring & PoE
  • Benchmarking

Basic Adoption & Configuration

  • Multi-Site
  • Layer-2 Adoption
  • WLAN Groups
  • SSID, Security & VLANs
  • Analytics

Advanced Adoption & Guests

  • Cloud Hosting
  • Layer-3 Adoption
  • Discovery, SSH, DNS & DHCP
  • Minimum RSSI
  • Zero-Handoff Roaming
  • Guest Portal
  • Access Controls
  • Customization

The Ubiquiti Broadband 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

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 Ubiquiti 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

The Ubiquiti Broadband Routing & Switching Specialist (UBRSS) course is a three-day, in-class training course designed to teach core protocols and technologies used in today's Internet Service Provider networks. The curriculum contains practical, real-world WISP examples as well as hands-on lab activities using EdgeMAX hardware.

Course Outline

Device Management

  • Configure Lab Equipment
  • EdgeMAX Product Family

IPv4 & Subnetting

  • Addressing Basics
  • Subnetting
  • VLSM for Providers
  • Summarization

Network Design

  • OSI Model & Encapsulation
  • Network Topology Foundations
  • Network Interfaces
  • The Local Network
  • Network Communication
  • The Wide Area Network

Routing

  • Routing Tables
  • Static Routing Protocols
  • Dynamic Routing Protocols

Services & Security

  • DHCP
  • DNS
  • NAT
  • Firewalls
  • Tunnels & VPN

Appendices

  • IPv6 Intro
  • EdgeOS Commands
  • Addressing & Routing Tables

The Ubiquiti Broadband Routing & Switching Admin (UBRSA) course a two-day course designed for professionals in the Service Provider market that seek hands-on experience configuring EdgeMAX products. The lab activities in this course teach real-world deployment scenarios involving STP, VLANs, Policy-Based Routing, advanced OSPF, intro-to-BGP. While not a pre-requisite to UBRSA, it is highly recommended that you complete the UBRSS course.

Course Outline

Virtual LANs

Advanced L2 Studies

Policy-Based Routing

BGP Operation

Multi-Area OSPF