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Foil 29 ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network

From Introduction to Network WANs Lectures at Xi'an Jaotong University -- Sept 1998. by Roman Markowski


1 ISDN integrates data, voice, and video signals into a digital telephone line
2 Specification:
  • CCITT in 1984 (spec I.100-400), 1988 (I.500-600) ; 96 basic specifications
    • Physical I.430/431 basic/primary interface
    • Logical Link I.441/Q.921 Link Access Protocol D channel (LAPD)
    • Network I.451/Q.931 control signaling, call control
3 Narrow-band ISDN (N-ISDN)- original standard operates over copper cable (operates on physical,logical and network layers)
4 BRI = Basic Rate Interface (2B+D=144 Kbps)
  • B = 64 Kbps, B (bearer) - data transmission channel
  • D = 16 Kbps, D (delta) - Signaling (2 modes: 64 Kbps and 56Kbps)
5 PRI = Primary Rate Interface (23B+D=1.544 Mbps) in Europe 30B+D (D = 64 Kbps, signaling channel)

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