Integrated

Services
Digital Network
(ISDN)
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 Integrated Services Digital Network

Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) was developed by

ITU-T in 1976. It is a set of protocols that combines digital
telephony and data transport services. The whole idea is to
digitize the telephone network to permit the transmission of
audio, video, and text over existing telephone lines

The goal of ISDN is to form a wide area network that provides

universal end-to-end connectivity over digital media. This can be
done by integrating all of the separate transmission services into
one without adding new links or subscriber lines.

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 ISDN Services

The network may change or process the contents of the data

Voice, Data, and Video (without manipulating the contents of the information)

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 Voice Communication over an
Analog Telephone Network

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 Voice and Data Communication
over an Analog Telephone Network

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 Analog and Digital Services
over the Telephone Network

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 IDN

Voice and data

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 ISDN

Data, Voice, Image, Facsimile and so on

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 ISDN Standard Channels
To allow flexibility, digital pipes between customers
and the ISDN office (subscriber loops) are organized
into multiple channels

ISDN Standard channels are:

Bearer channels
Data channels
Hybrid channels

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 ISDN Standard Channels
Channel Data rate (Kbps) B Channels:
Digital data, Digital
Bearer (B) 64 voice, other low data rate
Data (D) 16, 64 information
Hybrid (H) 384, 1536,1920
D channels:
control signaling (in channel) for B channel (call establishment,
ringing, call interrupt, or synchronization). It carries control
signaling for all channels (common channel signaling)

H Channels:
High data rate applications (video, teleconferencing and so on)
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 Digital subscriber loops

1. Basic Rate Interface (BRI)

2. Primary Rate Interface (PRI)

1. BRI (residential or small office customers)

Twisted
pair cable

Overhead bit required for its operation

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 Primary Rate Interface

Full duplex transmission

2. PRI between 23 source and
receiving nodes

In Europe, PRI uses 30 B channels and

two D channels, total 2.048 Mbps

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 Functional Grouping

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 Reference Points

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 BRI Interfaces
4, 6 or 8 wire
connection

Not
defined

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 S Interface

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 BRI
Topology

Bus or Star

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 PRI Interfaces

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 Addressing in ISDN
Identifies specific If connected through NT2
network in countries

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 Bit Rates for Different Applications

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 B-ISDN Services
BISDN is the broadband counterpart to Integrated Services Digital Network, which provides digital
transmission over ordinary telephone company copper wires on the narrowband local loop.

Without user control-TV

Two way exchanges:
Conversational- telephone, video telephony
Messaging- Voice mail, data mail, video mail
With user control-
Retrieval-videotex, electronic library
Two-way exchange of information (other than Pay TV
control signaling (information) between two Primarily one way transfer of
subscribers or between a subscriber and a information, from service provider to
service provider B-ISDN
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