Outline of telecommunication
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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
[edit | edit source]- Fax
- Instant messaging
- Radio
- Satellite
- SMS
- Telegraphy
- Telephony
- Television
- Television broadcasting
- mobile telephony
- Videoconferencing
- VoIP
- Voicemail
Types of telecommunication networks
[edit | edit source]- Computer networks
- Public switched telephone networks (PSTN)
- Packet switched networks
- Radio network
- Broadband
- Wireless Broadband
Aspects of telecommunication transmission
[edit | edit source]Telecommunication technology
[edit | edit source]Communications media types
[edit | edit source]- Physical media for Telecommunication
- Telecommunication through Free Space
- Broadcast radio frequency including television and radio
- Line-of-sight
- Communications satellite
- Terrestrial Microwave
- Wireless LAN
Relationship between media and transmitters
[edit | edit source]- Physical access to media
- Logical relationships
Multiple access to media
[edit | edit source]- Multiplexing
- Analog
- Frequency division multiplexing
- Space division multiplexing
- Digital
- Media Access Control
- Contention
- Token-based
- Centralized token control
- Distributed token control
- Analog
History of telecommunication
[edit | edit source]- History of radio
- History of television
- History of videophones
- History of mobile phones
- History of computing hardware
- History of the Internet
Major telecommunications equipment manufacturers
[edit | edit source]- Alcatel-Lucent
- Aricent
- AT&T
- Avaya
- Ciena
- Cisco Systems
- Ericsson
- Fujitsu
- HCL Technologies
- Huawei
- NEC
- Nokia
- ShoreTel
- Verizon
- ZTE
Major telecommunications service providers
[edit | edit source]Telecommunication organizations
[edit | edit source]Telecommunication publications
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]- Edwin Howard Armstrong
- John Logie Baird
- Paul Baran
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Jagadish Chandra Bose
- Vint Cerf
- Claude Chappe
- Donald Davies
- Louis Pouzin
- Lee de Forest
- Philo Farnsworth
- Reginald Fessenden
- Elisha Gray
- Innocenzo Manzetti
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Antonio Meucci
- Alexander Stepanovich Popov
- Johann Philipp Reis
- Almon Brown Strowger
- Nikola Tesla
- Camille Tissot
- Alfred Vail
- Charles Wheatstone
- Vladimir K. Zworykin
See also
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- List of telecommunications encryption terms
- List of telecommunications terminology
- List of telephony terminology
References
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External links
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- International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
- ATIS Telecom Glossary Archived 2008-03-02 at the Wayback Machine
- Communications Engineering Tutorials
- Federal Communications Commission
- IEEE Communications Society
- International Telecommunication Union
- Ericsson's Understanding Telecommunications at the Wayback Machine (archived April 13, 2004) (Ericsson removed the book from their site in September 2005)
- VoIP, Voice over Internet Protocol and Internet telephone calls Archived 2018-01-24 at the Wayback Machine
- Free Telco Dictionary