Terminal equipment
In telecommunication, the term terminal equipment has the following meanings:
- Communications equipment at either end of a communications link, used to permit the stations involved to accomplish the mission for which the link was established.
- In radio-relay systems, equipment used at points where data are inserted or derived, as distinct from equipment used only to relay a reconstituted signal.
- Telephone and telegraph switchboards and other centrally located equipment at which communications circuits are terminated.
See also
- Customer-premises equipment
- Data terminal equipment, an end instrument that converts user information into signals for transmission or reconverts the received signals into user information
References
This article incorporates public domain material from Federal Standard 1037C. General Services Administration. Archived from the original on 2022-01-22.
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