Abstract
The problem of choosing technical means for building telecommunications networks is considered. The main aspects of the choice of technical means for building networks are presented, a set of indicators for their selection is proposed. The purpose of the article is to compare the characteristics of technical means for building telecommunications networks. A comparative analysis is made on the example of switches of three companies according to four characteristics. According to the results of the analysis, it can be seen that switches with the best characteristics may be more expensive than others, and with cheap ones they may not correspond in overall dimensions. These contradictions reflect the typical nature of the variants of multi-criteria solutions