Social:Outline of telecommunication

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Short description: Overview of and topical guide to telecommunication

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to telecommunication:

Telecommunication – the transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. In modern times, this process almost always involves the use of electromagnetic waves by transmitters and receivers, but in earlier years it also involved the use of drums and visual signals such as smoke, fire, beacons, semaphore lines and other optical communications.


Modes of telecommunication

Types of telecommunication networks

Telecommunications network

Aspects of telecommunication transmission

Telecommunication

Telecommunication technology

Communications media types

Relationship between media and transmitters

Multiple access to media

  • Multiplexing
    • Analog
      • Frequency division multiplexing
      • Space division multiplexing
    • Digital
    • Media Access Control
      • Contention
      • Token-based
        • Centralized token control
        • Distributed token control

History of telecommunication

History of telecommunication

Major telecommunications equipment manufacturers

Major telecommunications service providers

  • List of mobile network operators
  • List of telephone operating companies

Telecommunication organizations

Telecommunication publications

Magazines[1]

  • Billing and OSS World
  • Cabling Installation & Maintenance
  • Call Center
  • Communications News
  • Communications System Design
  • Lightwave
  • Mobile Radio Technology (MRT)
  • New Telephony
  • Phone+
  • RCR Wireless News
  • Telecom Asia
  • Telecommunications Magazine
  • Telephony
  • WhatSatphone Magazine
  • Wireless Systems Design
  • Wireless Week
  • Xchange

Persons influential in telecommunication

See also

  • List of telecommunications encryption terms
  • List of telecommunications terminology
  • List of telephony terminology

References

External links