The aim of this chapter is to provide an introduction to the rapidly evolving ISDN and BISDN and their related emerging services and technologies. Although ATM will be briefly mentioned in this chapter for the sake of completeness, its full discussion will be in the next chapter.

Chapter Contents:

• 8.1 ISDN
• 8.1.1 ISDN Devices and Interfaces
• 8.1.2 Services
• 8.1.3 Architecture
• 8.2 BISDN
• 8.2.1 Interfaces and Terminals
• 8.2.2 ATM Technology
• 8.2.3 Broadband ISDN Protocol Architecture
• 8.2.4 Applications for BISDN
• 8.3 ISDN Standards
• 8.4 ISDN Applications
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Problems

Inspec keywords: telecommunication services; asynchronous transfer mode; B-ISDN

Other keywords: asynchronous transfer mode; ATM; broadband integrated services digital network; BISDN

Subjects: Communication switching; ISDN