In
telecommunications
Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information over a distance using electronic means, typically through cables, radio waves, or other communication technologies. These means of ...
, 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
Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 3 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connec ...
-
relay systems, equipment used at points where
data
Data ( , ) are a collection of discrete or continuous values that convey information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted for ...
are inserted or derived, as distinct from equipment used only to relay a reconstituted
signal
A signal is both the process and the result of transmission of data over some media accomplished by embedding some variation. Signals are important in multiple subject fields including signal processing, information theory and biology.
In ...
.
*
Telephone
A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that enables two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most ...
and
telegraph
Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus flag semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas ...
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
Telecommunications equipment
{{Telecomm-stub