Antenna Basics

Antenna Fundamentals
Before we can design an antenna or discuss antenna types, we must understand the basics of antennas, which are the fundamental parameters that characterize an antenna.


We'll start with frequency and step through radiation patterns, directivity and gain, and ultimately close with an explanation on why antennas radiate.
The basics of sinusoids (sine and cosine waves), wavelength, frequency and the speed of light.
A discussion on how all waveforms in the universe are made up of the sum of sinusoids (simple waves) This helps explains why in antenna theory we always discuss wavelength and frequency no matter what signal (information) we want to transmit.


No discussion on antenna fundamentals is complete without a real-world list of frequency bands.
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Day 41 — BGP Confederations: Sub-AS Design, External View and Migration

1. Opening Confederations are another way to scale BGP inside a large administrative domain. They divide the domain into member autonomous systems while presenting a single confederation identifier to external peers. They are powerful, but their operational model is more complex than simply 'using private ASNs inside.' The engineering goal is not to memorize another BGP command. It is to understand what information each speaker is allowed to propagate, what path information can be hidden, and what failure domain is created by the chosen control-plane architecture . 2. Concept and standards behavior RFC 5065 defines AS_CONFED_SEQUENCE and AS_CONFED_SET and how member-AS relationships are represented. Confederation external sessions have eBGP-like properties inside the confederation, while the confederation is presented externally as one AS. Modern guidance must also account for the fact that RFC 9774 prohibits new origination of AS_SET/AS_CONFED_SET in ordinary aggregation c...