Telecommunications equipment (also telecoms equipmentorcommunications equipment) is a type of hardware which is used for the purposes of telecommunications. Since the 1990s the boundary between telecoms equipment and IT hardware has become blurred as a result of the growth of the internet and its increasing role in the transfer of telecoms data.[1][2]
Telecommunications equipment can be broadly broken down into the following categories:[3]
Most of the essential elements of modern telecommunication are built from MOSFETs (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors), including mobile devices, transceivers, base station modules, routers, RF power amplifiers,[4] microprocessors, memory chips, and telecommunication circuits.[5] As of 2005, telecommunications equipment account for 16.5% of the annual microprocessor market.[6]
The world's largest telecommunications equipment vendors by revenues in 2017 are:[7]
 Huawei
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$92.55 |
 Cisco Systems
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$48.00 |
| Ciena
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$38.57 |
 Nokia
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$27.73 |
 ECI Telecom
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$24.16 |
 NEC Corporation
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$23.95 |
| Qualcomm
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$22.297 |
| ZTE
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$16.71 |
| Corning
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$10.12 |
| Motorola Solutions
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$6.38 |
| Juniper Networks
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$5.03 |
| United States
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$94.62 |
| Japan
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$62.52 |
| Finland
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$27.73 |
 Sweden
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$24.16 |
