Corrosion and Protection of Facilities and Infrastructures in Telecommunications Industry - A Review

A review of corrosion and protection of telecommunications facilities and infrastructures is reported here. The article gives a brief insight into the broad aspects of basic corrosion and telecommunications engineering and technology. These areas of discussion include all telecommunications metallic materials and equipment, buildings, and masts/towers. The review also discussed various corrosion protection methods such as organic/inorganic coatings, hot dip galvanizing, electroplating and electroless plating, cathodic protection, materials selection and systems design. The protection level for different components of the tower to which cathodic protection is used includes tower base, foundation of telecommunication shelters, buried portion of waveguide bridges, anchor shafts, and grounding system which were briefly discussed.