BROADBAND ISDN

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INTRODUCTION
ISDN is an acronym, which means Integrated Services Digital Network. It is a set of CCITT / ITU standards for digital transmission over ordinary telephone copper wire as well as over other media. ISDN is the integration of both analogue or voice data, together with digital data over the same network.

N-ISDN ARCHITECTURE
N-ISDN Channels
B Channel- 64 kbps D Channel- 16 or 64 kbps H channel H0 = 384 kbps ( 6 B ) H10 = 1472 kbps ( 23 B) H11 = 1536 kbps ( 24 B) H12 = 1920 kbps ( 30 B)

Interface Structures
Basic Rate Interface ( 2B+D ) Primary Rate Interface ( 23B+D ) in USA and ( 30B+D ) in Europe

N-ISDN CONNECTIONS AND REFERENCE POINTS

ISDN CALL PROCEDURE

ASYNCRONOUS MODE TRANSFER

Virtual Channel Identifier

Header Error Detection Character

Undefined

Channel Data

ATM CELL HEADER FORMAT

B-ISDN CHANNEL RATES

H21 : 32.768 Mbps H22 : 43 Mbps to 45 Mbps H4 : 132 Mbps to 138.24 Mbps

SIGNALLING
SVC type Directionality SVCs per user interface

Meta signaling General Broadcast Selective Broadcast Point-to-Point

Bi-directional Unidirectional Unidirectional Bi-directional

1 1 Several Possible 1 per signaling endpoint

PROTOCOL REFERENCE MODEL

Control Plane
Higher Layers Higher Layers

User Plane

ATM Adaptation Layer

ATM Layer

Management Plane

Physical Layer

B-ISDN COMPARED WITH OSI MODEL

CBR VBR ABR UBR Signaling Network Layer

ATM Adaptation Layer Link Layer ATM Layer Physical Layer Physical Layer

B-ISDN SERVICES
Interactive Services Conversational Services Messaging Services Retrieval Services Distributive Services No User Control of Presentation User Controlled Presentation

APPLICATIONS
Enhanced Phone Services Customer Premise Equipment High Speed Data Transfers Telemessaging Videotex Tele-conferencing Telecontrol, Telepolling Tele-financing Online Services Remote Video Surveillance

CONCLUSION
ISDN is an underlying technology, which provides costeffective networking through the public telephone networks. ISDN is an important step forward in the adaptation of the network to handle the increasing global demand for computer-to computer data communications.

ISDN brings us closer to the goal of a ubiquitous multiservice network, integrating voice, data, video and image.