Terminal (telecommunication)

In the context of telecommunications, a terminal is a device which ends a telecommunications link and is the point at which a signal enters or leaves a network.

Examples of terminal equipment include telephones, fax machines, computer terminals, printers and workstations.

In telephony, this is usually a telephone connected to a local loop.

[1] End instruments that relate to data terminal equipment include printers, computers, barcode readers, automated teller machines (ATMs) and the console ports of routers.

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