Primer on Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN): Implications for future global communications
Abstract
A primer on Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN's) is given. The ISDN concept is believed by many to be the communication means for the future information age. A number of national ISDN's interconnected together can provide a high-performance, multiservice, digital network for global communications. This primer on ISDN is for persons unfamiliar with telecommunications but who wish to know about this important concept. The developments in telecommunications technology-from analog to digital-that make possible the efficiencies and economies of an ISDN or ISDN's are discussed. Also addressed are technical and policy considerations: Why is an ISDN needed? How is it expected to evolve? What problems will it cause? Who is working on them?
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- September 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983STIN...8423839.
- Keywords:
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- Communication Networks;
- Data Links;
- Data Systems;
- Analog Data;
- Digital Data;
- Digital Systems;
- Efficiency;
- Policies;
- Communications and Radar