I've never felt like I had a good grasp on what constitutes a telecom board vs peripheral and was hoping for some insights. The attached boards came from various old switch boxes and have anywhere from 6 to 16 ports - would these be considered telecom boards?

I apologize for not numbering the photos, my computer is shitting the bed on me.

Have you viewed the video provided on the Boardsort escrap price list? The one in the High Telecom category? If not. Please view it. Upon viewing it. Then it surely seems all your pictured PCBs fall into High Telecom category. Also. I see you should remove some heatsinks. Also. I could see a disc battery on the blue board. Batteries are a no no on any submission. Looks like you were removing electrolytics. That might not have been neccessary. Though. It definately won't get you a downgrade. Hopefully another escrapper will post also for you. I'm still relatively new at this
Here to learn like everybody else.
Have a wonderful day.

I appreciate the response and had the same intuition you did. I did watch the video but it mentioned the number of ports as being a factor
so wasn’t sure what the cutoff would be. I also should have noted that I was not done cleaning them up, just wanted to get a better idea of what I was dealing with before taking too much off. Thank you!

I think it comes down to ports and chip density.

For the board in the 3rd picture, if you removed the Ethernet ports (and heatsinks off course) it would still be high grade telecom, because there are so many chips, and large chips to boot. Remove the ports and half the chips, it's high grade peripheral.

That's my consensus. If others want to weigh in on that, I would appreciate the guidance.