In telecommunications, 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
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