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Integrated Services Digital Network

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Also known as ISDN

thumb|ISDN telephone

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Within Vinony's link graph, Integrated Services Digital Network is referenced by 1,484 other articles, and connects out to videotelephony, Fiber To The X and data-rate unit.

It is catalogued under topics including Audio network protocols, Computer network technology and Computer-related introductions in 1988.

Its subject is documented across 53 Wikipedia language editions.

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Technology standard.title
ISDN
Technology standard.long_name
Integrated Services Digital Network
Technology standard.organization
ITU-T
Technology standard.predecessor
Plain old telephone service with dial-up Internet access
Technology standard.successor
Broadband such as DSL or FTTx

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Encyclopedic overview

32 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Digital lines
  • Standardization
  • Rollout
  • Replacement by ADSL
  • Design
  • Configurations
  • Reference points
  • Basic Rate Interface
  • Primary Rate Interface
  • Bearer channel
  • X.25
  • Frame Relay
  • Uses
  • Telephone industry
  • Video conferencing
  • Broadcast industry
  • Backup lines
  • International deployment
  • Australia
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • India
  • Japan
  • Norway
  • United Kingdom
  • United States and Canada
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

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Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a set of communication standards for simultaneous digital transmission of voice, video, data, and other network services over the digitalised circuits of the public switched telephone network. Work on the standard began in 1980 at Bell Labs and was formally standardized in 1988 in the CCITT "Red Book". By the time the standard was released, newer networking systems with much greater speeds were available, and ISDN saw relatively little uptake in the wider market. One estimate suggests ISDN use peaked at a worldwide total of 25 million subscribers at a time when 1.3 billion analog lines were in use. ISDN has largely been replaced with digital subscriber line (DSL) systems of much higher performance.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Integrated Services Digital Network” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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