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Can someone tell me the difference between telecom and peripheral

I learned from watching shark's videos, researching on the forum here, and monitoring the 'what is it?' section.

Telcom have very minimal junk and lots of gold bearing items. Normally these come out of out telecommunications devices.

Peripheral have some junk and not a lot of bearing items. Normally, these come out of peripheral devices.


Chris also have videos up on the e-scrap prices page. You can click on the link to his youtube and watch the categorical videos for each section. A lot of exceptions exist so I can't blanketly say every flatscreen with have peripheral boards but most do. I can't say every router for internet access is peripheral as there are some more complex that might be telcom.

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Right:

"peripheral" is a relic of nomenclature that referred to any peripheral device, mouse, keyboard, printer and such things you plugged into your computer. These boards tended to be of similar quality when boardsort and others started recycling so the "peripheral boards" tend to be those things

"telecom" or telco or telecommunications, tended to refer to equipment from companies that handled telephone and communication services and required long life and reliability (more gold, silver and such)

Over time these have changed some, especially as more intermediary grades were established but largely peripheral is still basic consumer material and telco is still high end high value material.

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