{"id":7251,"date":"2021-07-24T12:23:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T10:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/?p=7251"},"modified":"2021-07-24T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T10:30:39","slug":"what-is-customer-premises-equipment-cpe-a-history-and-the-different-types-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/what-is-customer-premises-equipment-cpe-a-history-and-the-different-types-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"What are customer premises equipment (CPE); a history and the different types explained."},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time-approximately:<\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

Customer premises equipment (CPE) is telecommunications and information technology equipment kept at the customer’s physical location rather than on the service provider’s premises.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Telephone handsets, cable TV set-top boxes and Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) routers are examples of CPEs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connectivity is established through a carrier’s telecommunication circuit at a demarcation point, or demarc<\/em>. The demarc point is typically a central office utilized by the service provider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Service providers could include telecommunications companies or a networking and communications vendor, like Cisco. Cybersecurity providers can also be included in this list, for instance, including hardware-based firewalls and intrusion prevention or intrusion detection systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hardware-based firewalls and intrusion detection\/prevention systems are among the types of devices available from cybersecurity vendors as customer premises equipment.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What is the history of customer premises equipment?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Historically, telecommunications companies placed CPE at the customer’s end of the telephone line. Bell System, a system of companies under the Bell Telephone Company — later AT&T, until its breakup in 1983 — usually owned this equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission eventually ruled that carriers could no longer bundle CPE with a telecommunications service. So, today, almost any end-user equipment can be called customer premises equipment<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The subscriber or the provider can own these devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are the different types of customer premises equipment?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Today, a variety of different types of devices count as CPE. The following list includes a few examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n