Engineering:Telecommunications equipment

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Short description: Hardware used for telecommunication purposes
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

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

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]

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

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