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telecommunication without computers[edit]

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Currently this article claims that "All telecommunication networks are made up of five basic components that are present in each network environment regardless of type or use. These basic components include terminals, telecommunications processors, telecommunications channels, computers, and telecommunications control software."

Is it possible to build an analog public switched telephone network without computers? Is it possible to build an electrical telegraph network without computers? Is it possible to build a telex network without computers?

Or are each of those things technically not a "telecommunication network"? --68.0.124.33 (talk) 14:05, 22 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was among the thousands of people building the PSTN without including computers among the basic components, but that was in the stone age. The quoted passage is in present tense, which perhaps inadequately indicates that it's about modern systems. Jim.henderson (talk) 16:01, 22 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

¿What do you call "computers"? Is a FPGA a "computer"? Is a network switch a computer? Nobody will play Doom on them. Is an optical reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer? Do you really think that there are computers (or any kind of electronic devices) in satellites instead of only waveguides? Please, not everything is build with computers. --85.48.235.204 (talk) 06:59, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Cleanup tag[edit]

I've made a number of edits since the 15 march (each documented in the history) with the purpose of making it more concise and making a more definitive demarcation between the generic properties and purposes of telecommunications networks in general and the particulars of the TCP/IP. So I created a section called Example: to put in the particular language and definitions associated with WANs/LANs etc. I think with this structure it should be easier to build out the generic sections which I do think need a bit more work. So I've removed the cleanup tag because I think the article reads better now than before, but if someone disagrees you can put it back in. ChrisUK (talk) 15:50, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Malformed sentence and an unclarity[edit]

This has been improved and appears to be resolved. ~Kvng (talk) 17:46, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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"A telecommunications network is a collection of terminal nodes,[1] links are connected so as to enable telecommunication between the terminals.[1] The transmission links connect the nodes together."

My most reasonable interpretation of the above is that, there should be: "...terminal nodes[1], where...". Also, the concept of a "link" in this context remains unclear. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Miika Pirtola (talk • contribs) 07:06, 19 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Help the Barr's[edit]

Someone better get it done before I leave the house with the entire situation. 2600:1700:665A:3180:84CF:BBA3:115E:CA64 (talk) 18:48, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]