Serial DCE and DTE Difference

I am doing networking course and came to know about the term Serial DCE and DTE want to know details about this. Will you provide me Serial DCE and DTE Difference so that I get to know about this also provide me lists of Cisco 7000 Series Cables?

[Kiran Chandar]

The terms DTE and DCE are very common in the data communications market.

Devices that communicate over a serial interface are divided into two classes: DTE and DCE.

The most important difference between these types of devices is that the DCE device supplies the clock signal that paces the communications on the bus.

Details of DCE:

DCE = Data Circuit-terminating Equipment.

1. in a data station, the DCE performs functions such as signal conversion and coding, at the network end of the line between the data terminal equipment (DTE) and the line, and that may be a separate or an integral part of the DTE or of intermediate equipment.

2. The interfacing equipment that may be required to couple the data terminal equipment (DTE) into a transmission circuit or channel and from a transmission circuit or channel into the DTE.

About DTE:

DTE = Data Terminal Equipment

1. An end instrument that converts user information into signals for transmission or reconverts the received signals into user information.

2. The functional unit of a data station that serves as a data source or a data sink and provides for the data communication control function to be performed in accordance with link protocol.

Networking standards were defined in terms of the DTE/DCE interface.

Cisco 7000 Series Cables:

CX-FSIP4
CX-FSIP8
CX-HIP
CX-MIP-1CT1
CX-MIP-2CT1