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Manatee Community College
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From: Priscilla Oppenheimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Subject: Re: DTE/DCE definitions ? CCAI woes. [7:32924
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It's tempting to say that the terms DTE and DCE only apply to WANs, but, in
fact, IEEE uses the term DTE to refer to stations, nodes, hosts that reside
on LANs. When talking about interconnect devices, they call them by their
actual name, such as repeater or bridge. I don't think they ever use
Thanx for bruising my brain Diffy
Phil.
--- Diffy De Villiers wrote:
Just to add on to what Hal said:
The terms DTE/DCE are used at both layer1 and layer2
of the OSI model
and at both layers they represent different
entities.
A layer1 DTE is an acronym for a physical Data
Terminal
From the CCNA curriculum glossary:
DCE
Data communications equipment (EIA expansion) or data
circuit-terminating equipment (ITU-T expansion). The devices and
connections of a communications network that comprise the
network end of the user-to-network interface. The DCE
Actually it's not properly covered until Sem6, BCRAN.
Prof. Tom Lisa, CCAI
Community College of Southern Nevada
Cisco ATC/Regional Networking Academy
Logan, Harold wrote:
I personally don't like the fact that semester 2 tests students on their
knowledge of
WAN topologies and
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