JTO Cheatsheet — Quick Reference
Frequency Bands
VLF (3-30 kHz) — submarine comms
LF (30-300 kHz) — AM radio (long wave)
MF (300kHz-3MHz) — AM radio (medium wave)
HF (3-30 MHz) — shortwave, amateur radio
VHF (30-300 MHz) — FM radio, TV, 4G Band 7
UHF (300MHz-3GHz) — TV, 4G/5G (700MHz-2.6GHz), WiFi, Bluetooth
SHF (3-30 GHz) — satellite, microwave, 5G mmWave starts here
EHF (30-300 GHz) — mmWave 5G (28/39 GHz), radar
5G Key Parameters
5G NR peak speed: 20 Gbps DL, 10 Gbps UL
Latency: < 1ms (URLLC), < 4ms (eMBB)
Connection density: 1 million devices per km²
Frequencies: FR1 (< 6GHz), FR2 (24-100 GHz mmWave)
Modulation: Up to 256-QAM
MIMO: Massive MIMO (64T64R or higher)
Numerology: μ=0 (15kHz), μ=1 (30kHz), μ=3 (120kHz for mmWave)
E1 / T1 Quick Facts
E1: 32 timeslots × 64kbps = 2.048 Mbps
30 voice + 1 signaling + 1 framing = 32 total
T1: 24 timeslots × 64kbps = 1.544 Mbps
24 voice + framing = 25 total
STM-1 = 155.52 Mbps = 63 × E1s
OSI 7 Layers
7 Application — HTTP, FTP, SMTP, DNS, SIP
6 Presentation — SSL/TLS, encoding, compression
5 Session — RPC, NetBIOS, session management
4 Transport — TCP, UDP, SCTP (segments/datagrams)
3 Network — IP, ICMP, OSPF, BGP (packets)
2 Data Link — Ethernet, WiFi, PPP (frames)
1 Physical — Copper, Fiber, Radio (bits)