Yay James! The pedants amongst us finally have a voice. It is always grating to hear someone use premise when they mean premises. Basically, premise is not the singular of premises.
CPE is a generally accepted industry term meaning customer premises equipment. Simply, any equipment associated with a service that is on the customer's premises. In the case of ADSL, it is the ADSL modem or router. Any equipment you have beyond that (hub, switch, Airport) is not CPE because it is not strictly required by the service provider to provide the service. Clear as mud. Cheers Greg > From: James Devenish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 16:56:34 +0800 > To: "WAMUG Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: 'cpe' > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Mon, May 03, 2004 at 03:51:10PM +0800, Luke Brown wrote: >> Malcolm J McCallum wrote: >>> Hi wamuggers, can some guru enlighten me as to what the 'cpe' stands >>> for at the beginning of net work address? >>> TIA >> >> Customer Premise Equipment? > > In answer to the original poster: 'cpe' has no technical meaning in the > Internet domain name service -- it is merely one of Telstra's naming > conventions for its own customers. Presumably Luke is correct, except: > > In response to Luke's followup: > >> From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]: > > premise > n : a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a > conclusion can be drawn; [syn: {premiss}, {assumption}] > > I point this out because some people use 'premise' when they mean 'premises': > >> From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]: > > premises > n : land and buildings together considered as a place of > business; > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro >
