Chapter 4. Customer Premise Equipment (CPE)
This chapter covers the following topics:
Servers and Workstations
Communication Equipment
LAN CPE
Analog Equipment
Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) is any hardware that is physically located at a customer site. For example, each of the following is considered CPE:
Servers
Workstations
Communication hardware (CSU/DSUs, modems)
LAN equipment (hubs, bridges, switches)
WAN equipment (routers)
This chapter describes each of these items.
Servers and Workstations
The word server can refer to both the hardware and software or just the software that performs the service, such as File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Workstation refers to any local area network (LAN) host (a computer) that enables a user to interface with LAN resources. ...
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