"
Communication Technology," also known as "
Communications Technology" or "
Information Communications Technology (ICT)," is focused on the reception and/or transmission of data and information across one or more different communications channels or mediums. Communications Technology is considered to be a subset of the broader category "
Information Technology," which applies to any technical solution that addresses "any" aspect of dealing with data, information and/or knowledge. Examples of the more general functions we can perform with or on any data or information include but are not limited to:
- Create
- Modify
- Persist/Store
- Delete
- Copy
- Archive
- Retrieve
- Transmit
- Receive
- Format
- Render/View
Communications Technologies fall under the professional IT Discipline known as "
Communications Management."
Subsets of Communications Technologies include but are not limited to:
- Narrowband Technologies
- Wideband Technologies
- Microwave Communications Technologies
- FiberOptic Communications Technologies
- Sonar Technologies
- Troposcatter Technologies