Category
page 1Telecommunications equipment

telephone
thumb|An old rotary dial telephone
thumb|AT&T push button telephone made by [[Western Electric, model 2500 DMG black, 1980]]
optical fiber
light-conducting fiber

fax
thumb|upright=1.2|This fax machine from 1999 used relatively new inkjet printing technology on normal paper.
thumb|upright=1.2|Like many fax machines, this 1990 model used thermal printing on relatively expensive [[thermal paper which came in rolls. The roll was inserted into a compartment in the machine.]]
radio transmitter
thumb|Commercial FM broadcasting transmitter at radio station [[WDET-FM, Wayne State University, Detroit, US. It broadcasts at 101.9 MHz with a radiated power of 48 kW.]]

pager
A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter.
submarine communications cable
long range communications device placed underwater, often intercontinental
repeater
thumb|A radio repeater retransmits a radio signal.

radiosonde
thumb|Modern radiosondes showing progress of miniaturisationthumb|A Global Positioning System|GPS sonde, approx 220 × 80 ×75 mm (8.7 × 3.1 × 3 in) (with grounding station in the background, used to perform a 'ground check' and also recondition the humidity sensor)
RS-232
thumb|A DB-25 connector as described in the RS-232 standard

telex
thumb|A Teletype Model 32 used for telex service

waveguide
thumb|An example of a waveguide: A section of flexible rectangular waveguide used for radar that has a flange.

transceiver
In radio communication, a transceiver is an electronic device which is a combination of a radio transmitter and a receiver, hence the name. It can both transmit and receive radio waves using an antenna, for communication purposes. These two related functions are often combined in a single device to reduce manufacturing costs. The term is also used for other devices which can both transmit and receive through a communications channel, such as optical transceivers which transmit and receive light in optical fiber systems, and bus transceivers which transmit and receive digital data in computer d
low-noise block downconverter
patented by Murat Koksal turkish scientist born in Ankara 1972
door phone
electronic device for communication with someone outside a building
utility pole
post used by public utilities to support overhead wires and related equipment
S band
frequency range
optical time-domain reflectometer
Optoelectronic instrument
telephone line
single-user circuit on a telephone communication system
data circuit-terminating equipment
communications system component

intercom
thumb|upright=1.3|1980s MirTone intercom system
horn antenna
type of antenna shaped like a horn and also called "horn"
very-small-aperture terminal
satellite communication system with small dish antenna
data terminal equipment
communications system equipment
telecommunications device
type of hardware which is used for the purposes of telecommunications
loading coil
electronics circuit extension

pantelegraph
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thumb|Caselli's pantelegraph mechanism

Hellschreiber
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thumb|right|350px|Slight timing errors are compensated for by redundancy (engineering)|printing each line twice.
circulator

scrambler
In telecommunications, a scrambler is a device that transposes or inverts signals or otherwise encodes a message at the sender's side to make the message unintelligible at a receiver not equipped with an appropriately set descrambling device. Whereas encryption usually refers to operations carried out in the digital domain, scrambling usually refers to operations carried out in the analog domain. Scrambling is accomplished by the addition of components to the original signal or the changing of some important component of the original signal in order to make extraction of the original signal di
gateway
hardware
free-space optical communication
communication using light sent through free space

electronic squelch
In telecommunications, squelch is a circuit function that acts to suppress the audio (or video) output of a receiver in the absence of a strong input signal. Essentially, squelch is a specialized type of noise gate designed to suppress weak signals. Squelch is used in two-way radios and VHF/UHF radio scanners to eliminate the sound of noise when the radio is not receiving a desired transmission.
IP PBX
telephone system that operates on the principles of Internet Protocol technology
terminal server
enables organizations to connect devices with an RS-232, RS-422 or RS-485 serial interface to a local area network
Advanced Extremely High Frequency
United States military communications satellite constellation

media gateway
telecommunications translation device

Wideband Global SATCOM system
defense satellite communications project
mobile station
all user equipment and software needed for communication with a mobile network

telautograph
thumb|right|An early telautograph machine
The telautograph is an ancestor of the modern fax machine. It transmits electrical signals representing the position of a pen or tracer at the sending station to repeating mechanisms attached to a pen at the receiving station, thus reproducing at the receiving station a drawing, writing, or signature made by the sender. It was the first such device to transmit drawings to a stationary sheet of paper; previous inventions in Europe had used a constantly moving strip of paper to make such transmissions and the pen could not be lifted between words. Surpri
Multipoint control unit
device used to bridge videoconferencing connections
stub
short electrical transmission line
terminal
device which ends a telecommunications link and is the point at which a signal enters and/or leaves a network
25-pair color code
form of color code used in wiring
feed line
transmission line in radio antennas
serial cable
networking cable used for serial communication
SAF Tehnika
Latvian Microwave Data transmission equipment company
Optical line termination
Networking
Stingray phone tracker
cellular phone surveillance device
master clock
precision clock that provides timing signals to synchronise slave clocks as part of a clock network
CSU/DSU
A CSU/DSU (channel service unit/data service unit) is a digital-interface device used to connect data terminal equipment (DTE), such as a router, to a digital circuit, such as a Digital Signal 1 (DS1) T1 line. The CSU/DSU implements two different functions. The channel service unit (CSU) is responsible for the connection to the telecommunication network, while the data service unit (DSU) is responsible for managing the interface with the DTE. A CSU/DSU can have an external connection point or it can be integrated into a modular card installed in a router.
stepping switch
electromechanical multi-pole switch controled by a chain of pulses
Voice-operated switch
switch that operates when sound over a certain threshold is detected
Koruza
thumb|3D printed lens holder of KORUZA Scientific variant
reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer
optical network component
Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture
series of specifications by the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group
telecommunication circuit
line, conductor, or other conduit by which information is transmitted
Integrated access device
Tucker Telephone
torture device
Block upconverter
device used in the transmission of satellite signals
terminal equipment
term used in telecommunication