Telecommunications

History

Beacons, broadcasting, communications satellite, computer networking, drums, electrical telegraph, fax, heliograph, hydraulic telegraph, Internet, mass media, mobile phone, optical communication, optical telegraphy, video telephone, prepaid mobile phone, radio, radiotelephone, satellite communications, beacon fires (bongsu), history of telecommunication, telegram, telephone, The Telephone Cases, television, timeline of communication technology, undersea cable, videoconferencing, videophone, video call

Pioneers

Edwin Howard Armstrong, John Logie Baird, Paul Baran, Alexander Graham Bell, Tim Berners-Lee, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Vint Cerf, Claude Chappe, Donald Davies, Lee de Forest, Philo Farnsworth, Reginald Fessenden, Elisha Gray, Innocenzo Manzetti, Guglielmo Marconi, Antonio Meucci, Alexander Popov, Philipp Reis, Nikola Tesla, Camille Papin Tissot, Alfred Vail, Charles Wheatstone, Vladimir Zworykin

Transmission media

Electromagnetic waves, Korean: 전기적 케이블, free-space optical communication, molecular communication, optical fiber

Network topology and switching

Links, nodes, terminal nodes, network switches (switching, packet), telephone exchange

Multiplexing

Space-division, frequency-division, time-division, polarization-division multiplexing, orbital angular-momentum multiplexing, code-division

Networks

ARPANET, BITNET, cellular (mobile communication), computer, CYCLADES, Ethernet, FidoNet, Korean: 인터넷, ISDN, LAN, mobile, NGN, NPL network, public switched telephone, radio, telecommunications equipment, television, telex, WAN, wireless, World Wide Web