Wireline Telecommunications Equipment Industry Competitors

VTech Holdings knows that people of all ages love toys. The company makes cordless phones, pagers, personal digital assistants, e-mail appliances, and wireless modems. It sells its phones under the VTech and AT&T brands. The company develops electronic games and toys, including its Smart Start toys line for infants and a line of "precomputers" for older kids....

ADTRAN turns copper into gold. The company offers more than 1,600 network access products and systems used to enable Internet access, telephony, data transport, and video over all kinds of voice and data networks, from traditional copper wire to optical. ADTRAN sells its switches, routers, and multiplexing systems to wireline and wireless carriers and service providers, such as Verizon, AT&T , and Sprint....

American Telecom Services resells phone service bundled with its own telephones through major retailers such as Staples, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, and Amazon.com....

Amperion makes equipment and software that makes it possible to transmit high-speed data signals over medium-voltage electrical power lines. It also provides wireless end-user connectivity using its PowerWiFi technology. Service providers and utility companies use the products to enhance their service offerings with broadband Internet access....

Certacom Limited is a manufacturer and distributor of digital communications equipment used in voice and data networks. The company's products include digital cross connect systems, echo cancelling devices, multiplexers, public network access platforms, and voice compressors....

Ceterus Networks is giving copper wire a new lease on life. The equipment maker offers gear that enables Ethernet transmission over existing copper and fiber networks. Its Universal Transport System (UTS) lets carriers offer Ethernet services, along with traditional phone service, without expensive infrastructure overhaul....

Circa Enterprises manufactures sells electrical equipment, outdoor enclosures, and other goods to the customers in the telecommunications, electrical, and construction industries. The company's products include electrical surge protection terminals and modules and weather-resistant equipment cabinets for voice and data communications lines....

Aptly-named Communications Systems makes connectors and wiring systems for telecommunications networks. The company operates through subsidiaries. Its Suttle and Austin Taylor units make connectors, adapters, and other devices for voice, data, and video communications....

Echoes can be fun when bouncing your name off a canyon wall, but not during an urgent phone call. Ditech Networks' echo-cancellation equipment regulates the distracting echoes that can occur in long-distance, satellite, and cell phone calls. It has also developed voice processing products for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) networks....

This Openreach extends to "the first mile". A unit of BT Group, Openreach provides installation and maintenance services for BT Group's local network and for other telecommunications companies and ISPs operating in the UK. Its engineers handle the copper wire and fiber-optic cable connections that link consumers and businesses with a communications network....

PPOL is a US-based holding operating through a Japanese operating company -- AJOL, an acronym for All Japan On Line. AJOL makes a fax-based networking device called MOJICO, which combines features of a telephone and fax machine with database search and e-mail capabilities....

Quintum Technologies makes equipment for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) networks. Its Tenor switches, routers, and session border controllers enable service providers to deliver VoIP services; they also let corporations with multiple office locations to link different phone systems and extend the functions of their traditional PBX phone systems to remote users....

SCOTTY Group (formerly Motion Media) designs and develops video and audio telecommunications systems used to enable broadcasting, distance learning, videoconferencing, and security services among others. In addition to corporate clients, the company serves consumers, government agencies, educational institutions, healthcare providers, and security and surveillance organizations....

Telsis Group is a manufacturer of telecom network switching products used in both wired and wireless networks. The company, founded in 1987, sells equipment including carrier-grade voice switches for enabling telephone calls and short messaging system routers for directing the flow of text messages....

Vitec Group Communications makes intercoms. Do you copy? Over. Vitec Group Communications is the umbrella organization over UK-based Drake Electronics and US-based Clear-Com Communications. The company designs and supplies products used to construct intercom systems for use in air traffic control systems; simulation and testing environments; radio, television, and satellite broadcasting; live-performance venues; and other commercial setting, including hospitals, factories, and cruise ships....

Alcatel-Lucent has found its calling. The company is a leading global supplier of high-tech equipment for telecommunications networks. France's Alcatel acquired US rival Lucent Technologies for $11.6 billion in late 2006, forming a new organization called Alcatel-Lucent....

ANDA Networks products strive for ubiquity. The company provides equipment for fiber and copper-based networks that service providers use to deliver voice and data services to their subscribers. Its EtherTone product line enables services such as high-speed Internet access and voice-over-IP....

BATM Advanced Communications manufactures voice and data networking and connectivity hardware. The company's products include optical communications devices ranging from photonic switches, hubs, routers, and media converters to high-speed digital subscriber line (DSL) modems, port modules, and network interface cards....

BigBand Networks helps cable and telephone service provider keep the broadband beat. Companies use its routing and switching systems to offer data, video, and voice services. BigBand's hardware and software products support digital broadcast television, high-definition television (HDTV), high-speed data services, video on demand (VOD), and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP)....

CHINA PUTIAN, one of China's largest technology companies, makes telecommunications products including switching systems, mobile communications equipment, fiber optic equipment, and other networking products. The company's subsidiaries include Putian Co. and Putian Institute of Technology....