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.
Data terminal equipment, an end instrument that converts user information into signals for transmission or reconverts the received signals into user information