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terminal equipment Telecom Definition
  1. A device that constitutes a point of termination of a communications circuit or channel.Terminal equipment includes all customer premises equipment (CPE), including voice terminal equipment and data terminal equipment (DTE). See also CPE, DTE, and terminal.
  2. TE. In ISDN,TE includes all customer premises equipment (CPE), including voice terminal equipment and data terminal equipment (DTE). ISDN TE also includes premises-based switching equipment, such as PBXs and routers.There are two types of ISDN TE:TE1 is ISDN-compatible, and TE2 is not. See also CPE, DTE, TE1, and TE2.