Telecommunications equipment
Hardware used for telecommunication purposes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Telecommunications equipment (also telecoms equipment or communications equipment) is a type of hardware which is used for the purposes of telecommunications. Since the 1990s the boundary between telecoms equipment and IT hardware has become blurred as a result of the growth of the internet and its increasing role in the transfer of telecoms data.[1][2]
Smartphones are one of the most popular telecoms equipment.
Types
Telecommunications equipment can be broadly broken down into the following categories:[3]
- Public switching equipment
- Analogue switches
- Digital switches
- Voice over IP switches
- Virtual reality (VR)
- Transmission equipment
- Customer premises equipment (CPE)
- Customer office terminal
- Private switches
- Local area networks (LANs)
- Modems
- Mobile phones
- Landline telephones
- Answering machines
- Teleprinters
- Fax machines
- Pagers
- Routers
- Wireless devices
Semiconductors
Most of the essential elements of modern telecommunication are built from MOSFETs (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors), including mobile devices, transceivers, base station modules, routers, RF power amplifiers,[4] microprocessors, memory chips, and telecommunication circuits.[5] As of 2005, telecommunications equipment account for 16.5% of the annual microprocessor market.[6]
Vendors
The world's largest telecommunications equipment vendors by revenues in 2017 are:[7]
 Huawei |
$92.55 |
 Cisco Systems |
$48.00 |
| Ciena |
$38.57 |
 Nokia |
$27.73 |
 ECI Telecom |
$24.16 |
 NEC Corporation |
$23.95 |
| Qualcomm |
$22.297 |
| ZTE |
$16.71 |
| Corning |
$10.12 |
| Motorola Solutions |
$6.38 |
| Juniper Networks |
$5.03 |
| United States |
$94.62 |
| Japan |
$62.52 |
| Finland |
$27.73 |
 Sweden |
$24.16 |
See also
References
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