Telecommunications equipment (also telecoms equipment or communications equipment) is hardware 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.
Video Telecommunications equipment
Types
Telecommunications equipment can be broadly broken down into the following categories:
- Public switching equipment
- Analogue switches
- Digital switches
- Transmission equipment
- Transmission lines
- Optical fiber
- Base transceiver stations
- Free-space optical communication
- Laser communication in space
- Multiplexers
- Local loops
- Communications satellites
- Transmission lines
- Customer premises equipment
- Private switches
- Local area networks
- Modems
- Mobile phones
- Landline telephones
- Answering machines
- Teleprinters
- Fax machines
- Pagers
- Routers
Maps Telecommunications equipment
Vendors
The world's five largest telecommunications equipment (excluding mobile phone handsets) vendors, 2016 revenues are:
- Huawei Technologies
- Ericsson
- Ciena
- Nokia Networks (including Alcatel-Lucent)
- ZTE Corporation
The world's five largest router and switch vendor leadership: Global Service Provider Survey, June 2015:
- Cisco Systems
- Huawei Technologies
- Nokia Networks (including Alcatel-Lucent)
- Juniper Networks
- ZTE Corporation
The world's largest mobile phone handset vendors: 3rd quarter of 2016 Major Smartphone Sales Leaders :
- Samsung (72.5 million)
- Apple (45.5 million)
- Huawei Technologies (33.6 million)
- OPPO (25.3 million)
- Vivo (21.2 million)
- Xiaomi (14.9 million)
- LG Electronics (13.5 million)
- ZTE Corporation (11.7 million)
- Lenovo (10.9 million)
- TCL (8.9 million)
- Meizu (5.5 million)
- Micromax Mobile (< 5.0 million)
- Sony (< 5.0 million)
See also
- Networking hardware
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia