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.