Telecommunications Equipment Industry Description

Companies that design, manufacture, market, and distribute equipment for long-distance, local, and corporate telecommunications networks.

Summary

The convergence of voice, data, and video services fuels the need for the continuing upgrade of telecommunications systems. As traditional wireline service providers have faced increasing competition from wireless and voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers, they have broadened their own offerings. Serving traditional providers and disruptive upstarts alike, equipment makers have responded accordingly, shifting their product focus from equipment used in traditional circuit-switched network systems to wireless technologies and digital packet-switched platforms needed for IP communications. 

Telecommunications Equipment Industry Resources

• Dell'Oro Group Inc.
  
• Light Reading
  
• Network Computing
  
• Plunkett Research: Telecommunications
  
• Telecommunications Magazine Online
  
• Total Telecom
  
• Wireless Industry News
  
• Wireless Week
  

Telecommunications Equipment Industry Terminology

• TechEncyclopedia
  
• Telecommunications Glossary: Long Distance and Telephone Terms