EMC Testing and EMC Certification services for Telecommunications & Information Technology Products

The Information Technology started at the time when first mechanical computer was built by Charles Babbage in 1820, each command was entered manually, which was named as operating systems later. One hundred years later in 1946 the University of Pennsylvania reported the first programable general-purpose computer. AT&T Bell Labs in the 1960s and 1970s built operating system called Unix. Unix and its variant including the famous Linux which lead to some earlier models of the Mac PC. In the 1990s, computers got connected to the internet and the field of Information Technology was born (IT).

The Information Technology Equipment (ITE) is a combination of three different groups of the same technologies which started independently. These three industries groups were Telecommunication Equipment (TE), Data Processing Equipment (EDP) and Office and Business Equipment (OBE). The first merger was of Data Processing Equipment (EDP) and Office and Business Equipment (OBE). It was named Information Processing Equipment (IPE). Just like other things technology and industry demands brought Telecommunication Equipment (TE) and Information Processing Equipment (IPE) together and it was named Information Technology Equipment (ITE).

The equipment that is covered under the Information Technology includes devices that have a primary function related to the collection, transfer, storage, or processing of data. For example, office equipment, banking equipment which includes electronic devices like computers, display monitors, keyboards, and printers.  The other example of ITE equipment is Telecommunications Equipment (multiplexers, switches), Servers, Drives & Network HUBs.