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 and/or leaves a network. Examples of equipment containing network terminations are telephones, fax machines, computer terminals and network devices, printers and workstations.

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

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