Networking & Telecom

53 products, each exploded into a recursive bill of materials. Open one and keep clicking down to the bolts.

5G Base Station A 5G gNodeB comprising a massive-MIMO Active Antenna Unit (AAU), a Baseband Unit (BBU), an optical fronthaul link and tower mounting hardware, with DC power, GPS sync and grounding. 436 parts · 9 subsystems

5G CPE Router Customer-premises equipment that turns a cellular signal into home broadband: a modem SoC links to the 5G/4G network through external antennas, an application processor runs the router and Wi-Fi, and a small display shows signal and status. 407 parts · 8 subsystems

Antenna Alignment Tool A GNSS-based positioning device measuring antenna tilt, roll, and azimuth in real-time, enabling precise sector coverage alignment without manual calculations. 23 parts · 7 subsystems

Carrier Core Router High-capacity backbone router built from modular line cards, route processing cards, and a cross-connected switch fabric, with redundant power and cooling to handle continuous carrier traffic. 1,039 parts · 7 subsystems

Cell on Wheels (COW) A self-contained cellular base station on a trailer with a telescoping mast, shelter, generator, and RF antennas, deployable in days for temporary or emergency coverage. 34 parts · 6 subsystems

Cellular Signal Repeater A bi-directional amplifier system with separate donor and service antennas, duplexers, and isolation control to pick up weak cellular signals and rebroadcast them indoors. 214 parts · 8 subsystems

CWDM Multiplexer A passive optical component using thin-film filters to combine or separate coarse wavelength-division multiplexed channels across a single fiber, enabling multiple carriers on one strand. 85 parts · 7 subsystems

DAS Headend A centralized hub that receives cellular signals from a donor antenna, converts RF to optical, distributes to remote antenna units via fiber, and manages signal level equalization and filtering. 34 parts · 6 subsystems

Data Center Switch (Spine) A fixed-form spine/leaf data-center switch: a 1U/2U sheet-metal chassis carrying a switching-ASIC mainboard, 32 QSFP28/OSFP cages with pluggable optics, hot-swap fan trays, and dual hot-swap power supplies feeding a non-blocking 12.8 Tbps fabric. 3,264 parts · 10 subsystems

DECT Base Station A cordless-telephony base that bridges handsets to the network: a DECT chipset on a small mainboard handles the radio link to roaming handsets, an Ethernet/PoE port carries voice as IP, and the whole unit lives in a wall-mount plastic shell. 192 parts · 8 subsystems

DOCSIS Cable Modem Broadband modem that converts QAM/OFDM signals on a coaxial cable plant into Ethernet: a full-band RF tuner front end feeds a DOCSIS SoC that demodulates downstream channels and bursts upstream traffic back toward the cable headend. 442 parts · 6 subsystems

DSL Modem Router A residential gateway that bridges DSL telephone lines to Ethernet/WiFi, containing a line driver AFE, multi-core SoC, switching fabric, and 802.11n wireless. 56 parts · 7 subsystems

EDFA Optical Amplifier A fiber amplifier that amplifies weak optical signals directly in the fiber domain by pumping erbium-doped fiber with 980 nm lasers, achieving 30 dB gain without O-E-O conversion. 39 parts · 6 subsystems

Fiber Cable Blowing Machine A pneumatic or hydraulic machine that propels loose fiber optic cable through underground ducts using compressed air, eliminating hand-pulling tension. 25 parts · 6 subsystems

Fiber Fusion Splicer A precision instrument that strips fiber jackets, aligns cores with sub-micron accuracy, and melts fiber ends together using electric arc, creating a seamless splice with <0.1 dB loss. 54 parts · 8 subsystems

Fiber Media Converter A standalone gigabit copper-to-fiber media converter: it bridges a 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ45 segment to a 1000BASE-X fiber link via a pluggable SFP transceiver, in a small steel desktop/rack enclosure powered by an external adapter. 304 parts · 8 subsystems

Fiber ONT (Optical Network Terminal) Subscriber-end terminal of a passive optical network: a bidirectional optical subassembly receives continuous downstream light and fires precisely timed upstream laser bursts on one fiber, while a PON SoC bridges the optical link to Ethernet and telephone ports. 327 parts · 6 subsystems

Fiber Splice Closure A weatherproof enclosure protecting fusion-spliced fiber joints in outdoor runs, with cable seals, heat-shrink sleeves, and organized splice tray routing. 54 parts · 8 subsystems

Firewall Appliance A 1U rackmount next-generation firewall with multi-core x86 inspection, hardware crypto offload, twelve GbE/SFP+ ports, and dual hot-swap power. 82 parts · 10 subsystems

Industrial Cellular Router A DIN-rail mountable router for remote locations, providing LTE/5G connectivity with isolated serial ports, dry-contact I/O, and extended temperature operation for IoT and utility monitoring. 62 parts · 8 subsystems

Industrial Ethernet Switch A hardened DIN-rail managed switch for factory and substation networks: a conformally coated switch-SoC mainboard with surge protection, RJ45 and SFP ports with magnetics, redundant DC power inputs, a relay alarm contact, and screw terminal blocks. 508 parts · 7 subsystems

KVM Switch A four-port HDMI/USB KVM switch that lets one keyboard, mouse, monitor, and speaker set drive four computers, switching the active host by front-panel button, IR remote, or keyboard hotkey while emulating EDID and USB so every machine stays connected. 179 parts · 9 subsystems

Load Balancer Appliance A 1U application delivery controller: a multicore-SoC mainboard with dedicated SSL/TLS offload, copper and SFP+ data ports, NVMe storage, dual hot-swap power, and front-panel control, distributing client traffic across a server pool. 911 parts · 9 subsystems

LoRaWAN Gateway A wireless base station for LoRaWAN IoT networks using a concentrator card with SX1301/SX1302 multi-channel receivers, a host CPU, antennas, and backhaul connectivity. 219 parts · 7 subsystems

LTE Sector Antenna A directional cellular antenna array for outdoor macrocell coverage, featuring electronically-steerable beam pattern, motor-driven tilt, and weather sealing for 10+ year lifespan. 53 parts · 6 subsystems

Mesh Wi-Fi Node A tri-band Wi-Fi 6E mesh node: a vented plastic shell over a single mainboard carrying the networking SoC, RAM, flash, three radio front-ends and a 2.5GbE switch, fed by six PCB antennas and an external power adapter. 70 parts · 8 subsystems

Microwave Backhaul Radio Point-to-point radio link carrying cellular and ISP traffic between towers: an outdoor RF unit bolted behind a parabolic dish converts gigabit modem signals to a licensed microwave band, replacing fiber over hops of a few to tens of kilometers. 369 parts · 7 subsystems

Network Packet Broker An appliance that aggregates and filters traffic from multiple network taps, directing packets to security and monitoring tools via a switching fabric without blocking network traffic. 54 parts · 7 subsystems

Network Switch A 48-port managed Layer-3 rackmount Ethernet switch: 1U sheet-metal chassis, switching-ASIC mainboard, 48x RJ45 + 4x SFP+ ports, PoE+ subsystem, dual hot-swap PSUs, and a fan tray. 1,367 parts · 9 subsystems

Network Tap Inline monitoring device inserted into an Ethernet link that copies every frame in both directions to monitor ports for analyzers and security tools, with fail-safe relays that close the link straight through if the tap loses power. 262 parts · 6 subsystems

Network Video Recorder A specialized server appliance combining a multi-core CPU, large storage drives, and a PoE Ethernet switch to ingest, compress, store, and playback multiple IP camera feeds. 389 parts · 8 subsystems

Optical Line Terminal (OLT) A rack-mount chassis that is the head end of a passive optical network: a control card switches traffic between PON line cards facing thousands of subscriber fibers and high-rate uplinks toward the core, with redundant power and a fan tray keeping it running around the clock. 1,196 parts · 8 subsystems

OTDR Fiber Tester Optical time-domain reflectometer that characterizes a fiber link from one end: it fires nanosecond laser pulses into the fiber, times the faint backscatter and reflections returning to an avalanche photodiode, and plots loss versus distance to locate splices, bends, and breaks. 393 parts · 8 subsystems

Patch Panel A rack-mounted termination point for structured cabling: incoming horizontal cables land permanently on the rear of the panel, and the labeled front jacks let a technician patch any run to a switch with a short cord, all without re-terminating the building wiring. 165 parts · 7 subsystems

PoE Injector A single-port Gigabit PoE+ midspan injector: a metal-and-plastic desktop case that takes Ethernet data plus an AC-DC power brick and merges them onto one RJ45 cable to power a remote access point or camera. 178 parts · 11 subsystems

Point-to-Point Wireless Bridge Outdoor radio pair that extends an Ethernet network across open air: each unit integrates a 5 GHz radio board with a panel antenna in one sealed enclosure, powered over its own Ethernet cable, linking buildings kilometers apart at hundreds of megabits. 227 parts · 6 subsystems

Remote Radio Head A baseband processor and RF transceiver mounted at tower-top, processing baseband over fiber CPRI and radiating signals via antennas, eliminating long feeder runs. 26 parts · 7 subsystems

Satellite Internet User Terminal A phased-array antenna dish that electronically tracks satellites, feeds a modem/router unit controlling modulation and traffic, and mounts on a mast with motorized tracking and PoE power distribution. 400 parts · 7 subsystems

Satellite Modem An IP-over-satellite modem terminating an L-band link from a VSAT outdoor unit: an FPGA/SoC modem mainboard runs the demod/decode chain, an L-band RF front-end with up/down converters handles the carrier, and IF plus LAN ports connect the dish and the network. 807 parts · 7 subsystems

SD-WAN Edge Appliance A branch router aggregating multiple WAN connections (broadband, LTE, MPLS) and applying software-defined policy to steer traffic across the optimal path based on application requirements. 59 parts · 7 subsystems

Server Rack A 42U data-center server rack with welded steel frame, perforated doors, metered/switched PDU, cable management, rear-door fan cooling, KVM console drawer, and environmental sensing. 304 parts · 14 subsystems

SFP+ Optical Transceiver A small pluggable module implementing bidirectional 10 Gbit/s over a single-mode fiber using a laser transmitter (TOSA), receiver amplifier (ROSA), and supporting ICs. 196 parts · 8 subsystems

Small Cell Base Station A compact cellular radio that broadcasts LTE/5G in a confined area (100–300 m), integrating baseband SoC, RF transceivers, power amplifiers, antennas, and fiber/ethernet backhaul. 62 parts · 7 subsystems

Telecom Equipment Shelter An insulated, climate-controlled enclosure housing baseband processors, power supplies, and backhaul equipment, protecting them from weather while managing heat. 30 parts · 7 subsystems

Telecom Lattice Tower A three- or four-leg triangular lattice mast with steel angle bracing, antenna platforms, and aviation lighting that carries heavy loads across 100–200 ft heights. 157 parts · 7 subsystems

Telecom Monopole A tapered steel pole structure with antenna mounting platforms, climbing aids, and grounding that concentrates cellular coverage from a single mast. 57 parts · 7 subsystems

Tower Fall Arrest System A rigid or cable-based lifeline with intermediate anchor points and a traveller device that prevents a climber from falling more than a few feet. 48 parts · 6 subsystems

Tower-Mounted Amplifier A low-noise RF amplifier mounted at tower-top near antennas, boosting received signals before feeders carry them to baseband, reducing path loss noise figure. 24 parts · 7 subsystems

Vibratory Cable Plow A tractor-towed plow cutting a shallow trench while simultaneously burying fiber or power cable, eliminating separate digging and conduit installation steps. 25 parts · 7 subsystems

VoIP Gateway A media gateway bridging legacy analog and digital telephony to IP: an SoC/DSP mainboard runs the SIP stack and voice coding, FXS/FXO and E1 ports interface the PSTN side, and Ethernet ports carry the packetized calls. 510 parts · 7 subsystems

Wi-Fi Access Point A ceiling-mount dual-band Wi-Fi 6 access point: a sealed plastic puck holding a radio mainboard, PCB and chip antennas, and a Power-over-Ethernet uplink that powers the unit and carries its traffic on a single cable. 320 parts · 8 subsystems

Wi-Fi Router A tri-band Wi-Fi 6E mesh router node. 604 parts · 9 subsystems

WLAN Controller A centralized control plane for enterprise WiFi networks, managing AP provisioning, roaming, security policies, and real-time RF optimization across hundreds of access points. 38 parts · 7 subsystems