Outline of telecommunication

Modes of telecommunication

• E-mail
• Fax
• Instant messaging
• Radio
• Satellite
• SMS
• Telegraphy
• Telephony
• Television broadcasting
• Videoconferencing
• VoIP
• Voicemail

Types of telecommunication networks

Telecommunications network

• Computer networks
  • ARPANET
  • Ethernet
  • Internet
  • Wireless networks
• Public switched telephone networks (PSTN)
• Packet switched networks
• Radio network

Aspects of telecommunication transmission

• Analog
• Digital
• Functional profile
• Optics

Telecommunication technology

• Modulation
  • Amplitude modulation
  • Frequency modulation
  • Quadrature amplitude modulation
• Nyquist rate
• Nyquist ISI criterion
• Pulse shaping
• Intersymbol interference

Communications media types

• Physical media for Telecommunication
  • Twisted pair
  • Coaxial cable
  • Optical fiber
• 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
  • Simplex
  • Duplex (telecommunications)
• Logical relationships
  • Return channel
  • Two-way alternating
  • Two-way simultaneous

Multiple access to media

• Multiplexing
  • Analog
    • Frequency division multiplexing
    • Space division multiplexing
  • Digital
    • Time-division multiplexing
    • Statistical multiplexing and Packet switching
  • Media Access Control
    • Contention
    • Token-based
      • Centralized token control
      • Distributed token control

History of telecommunication

• History of telegraphy
• History of the telephone

• Invention of the telephone
• Timeline of the telephone

• 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
• ShoreTel
• Verizon
• ZTE

Major telecommunications service providers

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

Telecommunication organizations

• Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions
• Telecommunications Industry Association

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

• 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

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

References

External links

• 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
• Free Telco Dictionary