communications equipment
Signal sending hardware
Communications equipment encompasses devices used to transmit, receive, or process information across distances.
This includes radios, telephones, satellites, modems, routers, and broadcasting transmitters.
The term appears frequently in military, commercial, and regulatory contexts: The ship's communications equipment failed during the storm.
In business filings, it often designates a category of capital assets.
- switchCircuit-breaking toggle device
- pagerPortable alert receiver
- transmitterSignal-emitting device
- receiverOne who accepts transmission
- radio wavesLow-frequency electromagnetic radiation
antenna · satellite phone · router · telegraph key · speaker · handset · microphone · walkie-talkie · dispatch center · repeater · cell tower · hub · patch cable · coax cable · modem · radio tower · CB radio · codec
- military communicationsradio, walkie-talkie, radio operators, signal flags, morse code
- reinforcementsrelief force, reserve team, reinforcement, second wave, replacements
communication, communications, communicate, communicated, communicating, communicator, communicators, communicative, communicable