Overview of and topical guide to telecommunication
The followingoutline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to telecommunication:
Telecommunication – thetransmission ofsignals over a distance for the purpose ofcommunication. In modern times, this process almost always involves the use ofelectromagnetic waves by transmitters and receivers, but in earlier years it also involved the use ofdrums and visual signals such assmoke,fire,beacons,semaphore lines and other optical communications.
Modes of telecommunication
[edit]Types of telecommunication networks
[edit]Telecommunications network
Aspects of telecommunication transmission
[edit]Telecommunication
Telecommunication technology
[edit]Communications media types
[edit]- Physical media for Telecommunication
- Telecommunication through Free Space
Relationship between media and transmitters
[edit]- Physical access to media
- Logical relationships
Multiple access to media
[edit]- Multiplexing
- Analog
- Digital
- Media Access Control
- Contention
- Token-based
- Centralized token control
- Distributed token control
History of telecommunication
[edit]History of telecommunication
Major telecommunications equipment manufacturers
[edit]Major telecommunications service providers
[edit]Telecommunication organizations
[edit]Telecommunication publications
[edit]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
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