A network communication device is a physical entity used to connect the network and maintain the network data transmission function. Network communication equipment is the bottom infrastructure of the Internet, and belongs to the infrastructure products required for information construction. The variety of network communication devices is wide and growing. Basic equipment includes, but is not limited to, switches, routers, wireless access points (WAPs), gateways, hubs, bridges, network interface cards (NICs), printers and modems, fiber optic transceivers, fiber optic cables, and the like.
In 2019, the market size of China's network communication equipment was 8.85 billion US dollars (about 61.05 billion yuan), an increase of 4.98% compared with the same period in 2018, and the growth trend has slowed down. Government, Internet, education and services have become the main industries driving the growth of the network market.