Terminal (telecommunication)

For computer terminal, see computer terminal. For other types of termination nodes, see Terminal (disambiguation).

Network terminal nodes are at the edges of the network

In the context of telecommunications, a terminal is a device which ends a telecommunications link and is the point at which a signal enters and/or leaves a network. Examples of equipment containing network terminations are telephones, fax machines, computer terminals and network devices, printers and workstations.

See also

• Communication endpoint
• Data terminal equipment
• End system
• Host (network)
• Node (networking)

External links

• Directive 1999/5/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 1999 on radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment and the mutual recognition of their conformity (R&TTE Directive).