Term given to distinguish the computing instrument apart from any device used to perform the analog transmission and reception of data. Examples of DTE devices include computers, video display terminals, RTUs, and PLCs.
Refers to devices such as personal computers or data terminals, as opposed to Data Communications Equipment (DCE) such as printers or modems.
(DTE) A device which acts as the origin of, or destination for, data. Examples are a computer, terminal or printer.
Communications devices that transmit and receive data traffic in a communications system. They may also provide interfaces to users. Examples of data terminal equipment are computers and multiplexers. (source)
Generally end-user devices, such as terminals and computers that connect to DCE, which either generate or receive the data carried by the network. In RS-232-C connections, designation as either DTE or DCE determines the signaling role in handshaking; in an ITU-T X.25 interface, the device or equipment that manages the interface at the user premises. Compare with Data Circuit-terminating Equipment (DCE).
1. The embodiment of the media, modulation, and coding-dependent portion of a fieldbus-connected device, comprising the lower portions of the Physical Layer and all higher layers within the device. 2. The device providing the data source or end point for a transmission link.
(DTE) A digital device such as a display terminal, data entry terminal or printer which may be used to view or enter data. This device has a different communication connector pinout than DCE (see DCE).
Equipment consisting of digital end instruments. Converts user information into data signals for transmission. Also reconverts received data signals into user information.
(1) Provides for the communications control function (protocol). (2) Any piece of equipment at which a communications path begins or ends.
In communications, any device, such as a terminal or a computer, connected to a communications channel or public network.
A communication device that normally communicates with data communication equipment (DCE). See also DCE. Refers to any end-user device that can access an X.25 network using the CCITT X.25 standard, Link Access Procedure (LAP) / LAP-B, and X.25 Packet-level Procedure (PAP).
Typical the end-user devices, e.g., terminals or computers.
The part of a data station that serves as a data source, destination, or both, and that provides for the data communications control function according to protocol. DTE includes computers, protocol translators, and multiplexers.
DTE is any device that can send data and or receive data. (Note: At times DTE implies digital terminal equipment which is a type of CPE used with digital Service--see CSU and DSU.)
The source or destination of data, usually attached to a network by DEC devices. A terminal or computer acting as a node on a network is usually a DTE device.
That part of a data station that serves as a data source, data sink, or both. It is the part of the terminal that interfaces with the communications circuit.
Typically the device that transmits data such as a personal computer or data terminal.
This is the term used by the CCITT to describe terminal equipment in a communications environment. A DTE might actually be a terminal or it could be a computer running some communications software.
A computer or peripheral device at the end of the network, such as a PC, terminal, printer, data source, sink, etc.
In the RS-232-C hardware standard, any device, such as a remote access server or client, that has the ability to transmit information in digital form over a cable or a communications line. See also: Data Communications Equipment (DCE); remote access server; RS-232-C standard
DTE is an abbreviation for Data Terminal Equipment, and refers to an end instrument that converts user information into signals for transmission, or reconverts the received signals into user information. A DTE device communicates with the Data Circuit-terminating Equipment (DCE). The DTE/DCE classification was introduced by IBM company.