Outline of 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.
Types of telecommunication
Types of telecommunication networks
Main article: Telecommunications network
- Computer networks
- Public switched telephone networks (PSTN)
- Packet switched networks
- Radio networks
- Television networks
Aspects of telecommunication transmission
Main article: Telecommunication
Telecommunication technology
Communications media types
- 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
- Physical access to media
- Logical relationships
Multiple access to media
- Multiplexing
- Analog
- Digital
- Media Access Control
- Contention
- Token-based
- Centralized token control
- Distributed token control
History of telecommunication
- 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
- Alcatel-Lucent
- Aricent
- AT&T
- Avaya
- Ciena
- Cisco Systems
- Ericsson
- Fujitsu
- HCL Technologies
- Huawei
- NEC
- Nokia-Siemens Networks (now called Nokia Solutions and Networks)
- Nortel (bankrupt)
- ShoreTel
- Verizon
- Wildix
- ZTE
Major telecommunications service providers
Telecommunication organizations
Persons influential in telecommunication
- Edwin Howard Armstrong
- John Logie Baird
- Paul Baran
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Jagadish Chandra Bose
- Vint Cerf
- Claude Chappe
- Donald Davies
- Lee de Forest
- Philo Farnsworth
- Reginald Fessenden
- Elisha Gray
- Innocenzo Manzetti
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Antonio Meucci
- Alexander Stepanovich Popov
- Johann Philipp Reis
- Nikola Tesla
- Camille Tissot
- Alfred Vail
- Charles Wheatstone
- Vladimir K. Zworykin
See also
References
External links
- This outline displayed as a mindmap, at wikimindmap.com
- International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
- ATIS Telecom Glossary
- 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
- Free Telco Dictionary
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