ISDN

Described here are the basics of ISDN, including much practical information for the consumer, as well as some fairly technical descriptions of ISDN, and finally some discussion on where ISDN is going in the future.

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• ISDN Overview
  • Motivation and History
  • What is ISDN?
  • B-ISDN
  • Fitting things together
• All about Narrowband ISDN
  • Access Interfaces Provided
  • The ISDN Reference Configurations
  • Your house's network (S/T reference points)
  • Talking to the phone company (U reference point)
  • Signaling
  • Switching
  • Bearer Services
  • Rate Adaption
  • Inverse Multiplexing
• A little bit about Broadband ISDN
• The Future of ISDN
• ISDN References
• ISDN Glossary

This document was created for CIS 788.08Q: Recent Advances in Networking, a class project to assemble information on networking.
It was written by Thomas A. Fine (fine at head dot cfa dot harvard dot edu)
Last Modified August 25, 1995.

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