Telecommunications equipment

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Smartphones are one of the most popular telecoms 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 [ edit ]

Telecommunications equipment can be broadly broken down into the following categories: [3]

Semiconductors [ edit ]

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 [ edit ]

The world's largest telecommunications equipment vendors by revenues in 2017 are: [7]

Largest vendors by 2017 revenue (billion US dollars)
China Huawei $92.55
United States Cisco Systems $48.00
United States Ciena $38.57
Finland Nokia $27.73
Israel ECI Telecom $24.16
Japan NEC Corporation $23.95
United States Qualcomm $22.297
China ZTE $16.71
United States Corning $10.12
United States Motorola Solutions $6.38
United States Juniper Networks $5.03
Largest by country (2017)
United States United States $94.62
Japan Japan $62.52
Finland Finland $27.73
Sweden Sweden $24.16

See also [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

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