Telecommunications equipment
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]
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
- Networking hardware
- List of networking hardware vendors
- List of telephone switches
- Network equipment provider
References
- ^ "Telecoms equipment - We have the technology". The Economist. 1 October 1998. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
- ^ "Twisted pair - Nokia and Siemens pool their network divisions to form a new firm". The Economist. 22 June 2006. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
- ^ Ypsilanti, Dimitri; Plantin, Amy (1991). Telecommunications Equipment: Changing Markets and Trade Structures. OECD Publishing. p. 16. ISBN 9789264135536.
- ^ Asif, Saad (2018). 5G Mobile Communications: Concepts and Technologies. CRC Press. pp. 128–134. ISBN 9780429881343.
- ^ Colinge, Jean-Pierre; Greer, James C. (2016). Nanowire Transistors: Physics of Devices and Materials in One Dimension. Cambridge University Press. p. 2. ISBN 9781107052406.
- ^ Asthana, Rajiv; Kumar, Ashok; Dahotre, Narendra B. (2006). Materials Processing and Manufacturing Science. Elsevier. p. 488. ISBN 9780080464886.
- ^ "Telecommunication equipment companies ranked by overall revenue in 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)". Statista.com. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
