Outline of telecommunication
Overview of and topical guide to telecommunication From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to telecommunication:
Telecommunication ā the transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. In modern times, this process almost always involves the use of electromagnetic waves by transmitters and receivers, but in earlier years it also involved the use of drums and visual signals such as smoke, fire, beacons, semaphore lines and other optical communications.
Modes of telecommunication
Types of telecommunication networks
Aspects of telecommunication transmission
Telecommunication technology
Communications media types
- Physical media for Telecommunication
- Telecommunication through Free Space
- Broadcast radio frequency including television and radio
- Line-of-sight
- Communications satellite
- Terrestrial Microwave
- Wireless LAN
Relationship between media and transmitters
- Physical access to media
- Logical relationships
Multiple access to media
- Multiplexing
- Analog
- Frequency division multiplexing
- Space division multiplexing
- Digital
- Media Access Control
- Contention
- Token-based
- Centralized token control
- Distributed token control
- Analog
History of telecommunication
Major telecommunications equipment manufacturers
Major telecommunications service providers
Telecommunication organizations
Telecommunication publications
Magazines[1]
- Billing and OSS World
- Cabling Installation & Maintenance
- Call Center
- Communications News
- Communications System Design
- Lightwave
- Mobile Radio Technology (MRT)
- New Telephony
- Phone+
- RCR Wireless News
- Telecom Asia
- Telecommunications Magazine
- Telephony
- WhatSatphone Magazine
- Wireless Systems Design
- Wireless Week
- Xchange
Persons influential in telecommunication
- Edwin Howard Armstrong
- John Logie Baird
- Paul Baran
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Jagadish Chandra Bose
- Vint Cerf
- Claude Chappe
- Donald Davies
- Louis Pouzin
- Lee de Forest
- Philo Farnsworth
- Reginald Fessenden
- Elisha Gray
- Innocenzo Manzetti
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Antonio Meucci
- Alexander Stepanovich Popov
- Johann Philipp Reis
- Almon Brown Strowger
- Nikola Tesla
- Camille Tissot
- Alfred Vail
- Charles Wheatstone
- Vladimir K. Zworykin
See also
References
External links
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