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Digital Network
(ISDN)
Introduction
ISDN is a set of standards which define an end to end Digital Network
WAN Technology
Introduction
Features of ISDN
• Uses Digital Signal
• Uses Existing telephone wiring
• Charges are generally based on the duration of call
(How long the WAN link was used)
• Alternate to using leased lines
• Can transport many types of Network traffic (Voice,
Data, Video, Text, Graphics etc)
• Faster Data transfer rate than modems
• Faster Call setup than Modems
Introduction
ISDN Benefits
• Carries a variety of user traffic, such as digital video, data, and
telephone network services, using the normal phone circuit-switched
network
• Offers much faster call setup than modems by using out-of-band
signaling (D channel)
– Often less than one second
• Provides a faster data transfer rate than modems by using the 64-kbps
bearer channel (B channel)
– Can combine multiple B channels to bandwidth of 128 kbps
• Can negotiate PPP links
ISDN Architecture
ISDN Components
• Terminal Equipment type 1 (TE1)
• * ISDN compatible device (Router with ISDN Interface)
* TE1s connect to the ISDN network through a four-wire,
twisted-pair digital link
• Terminal Equipment type 2 (TE2)
* ISDN Non-compatible devices.
* Will require a terminal adapter.
• Terminal Adapter (TA)
* Converts standard electrical signals into the form used by ISDN
* Needed for connection with TE2 devices
* The ISDN TA can be either a standalone device or a board inside
the TE2
ISDN Architecture
ISDN Components
• Network termination type 1 (NT1)
* Network-termination devices that connect the four-wire
Subscriber wiring to the conventional two-wire local loop
* Is a customer premises equipment (CPE) device (North
America)
ISDN BRI
ISDN Services
Transmission Structure
• B channels:64 Kbps
• D channels:16 or 64 Kbps
• H channels:384 (H0), 1536 (H11), or 1920
(H12) Kbps
ISDN Transmission Structure
• B channel
– User channel used to carry digital data, PCM
encoded voice, or a mixture of lower rate traffic,
including data and voice encoded at a fraction of
64 kbps.
– Elemental unit of circuit switching is the B
channel
– Three kinds of connections:
• Circuit switched
• Packet switched
• Semi permanent
ISDN Transmission Structure
• D channel
– It serves two main purposes:
– It carries common-channel signaling information
to control circuit-switched calls on associated B
channels at the user interface.
– It may also be used for packet-switching at low-
speed (100 bps) telemetry at times when no
signaling information is waiting.
ISDN Transmission Structure
• H channels
– Provided for user information at higher bit
rates.
– The user may use such a channel as a high
speed trunk or sub-divide the channel
according to the user’s own TDM scheme.
– E.g. fast facsimile, video, high speed data, high
quality audio,
ISDN Transmission Structure
ISDN address
TE
TE NT2 NT1
TE
Single ISDN number
ISDN Addressing
National ISDN
number
international ISDN
number
ISDN address
(max 55 digits)
ISDN Physical Layer
Physical layer functions (at reference point S or T)
– encoding of digital data for transmission across the
interface
– full-duplex transmission of B channel data
– full-duplex of transmission of D channel data
– multiplexing of channels to form basic or primary access
– activation and deactivation of physical circuit
– power feeding from network termination to the terminal
– terminal identification
– faulty terminal isolation
– D channel contention access (for multipoint
configuration in basic)
ISDN Physical Layer
• Layer 1 specification is defined in I.430
• Key aspects of basic interface (supports
a 2B+D at 192 kbps)
– Line coding
– Physical connector
– Framing and multiplexing
– Contention resolution for multi drop
configurations
ISDN Physical Layer
Line Coding
• full-duplex digital data transmission
(one line for each direction)
• no echo cancellation or time-compression
multiplexing needed
• use of pseudoternary coding scheme
– “1”: absence of voltage
– “0”: a positive or negative pulse of 750
mV ± 10%
– data rate is 192 kbps
ISDN Physical Layer
Framing and Multiplexing
• basic structure: two 64-kbps B ch. and one 16-kbps
D channel
– multiplexing of 144 kbps over 192-kbps interface at S
or T ref. pnt.
– remaining capacity used for framing and synchronization
purposes
– 48-bit frames at a rate of one frame every 250 us
– frame from TE to NT is later than the frame in
opposite site by 2 bt.
– F-L pattern synchronizes the receiver (F positive, L
negative)
– FA bit is used in a mutiframe structure
– A bit is used to activate or deactivate a TE
– N and M bits may be used for multiframing
– S bit is reserved for future standardization
ISDN Physical Layer
ISDN Physical Layer
• Multiframe Structure
• organizing into superframes of eight frames each
• within superframe are 48 M bits (e.g., to form 12-bit
CRC)
Basic rate interface comparison of physical
layer standards
Data Link Layer
Link Access Protocol–D Channel
• Frame Structure
• Flag Fields
• a unique pattern of
01111110 to
delimit the frame
at both ends
• using bit stuffing
to allows the
presence of
arbitrary patterns
Link Access Protocol–D Channel
• Address Field
• a two-part address for dealing with two levels of multiplexing
– multiple user devices sharing the same physical interface
– multiple types of traffic within each user device (PS data and cont.)
* Terminal endpoint identifier (TEI)
– given to each user device manually or automatically
* Service access point identifier (SAPI)
– corresponds to a layer 3 protocol entity within a user device
• SAPI values are unique within a TEI
• SAPI and TEI together identify a logical connection DLCI at any time, LAPD
may maintain multiple logical connection, each with a unique DLCI one log.
connec. per a layer 3 entity
• Command/response (C/R) bit shows the type of LAPD message
Link Access Protocol–D Channel
Link Access Protocol–D Channel
• Control Field
• three types of frames and three different control field
– Information-transfer frames (I-frames)
• carrying data to be transmitted for user
• piggybacked of flow- and error-control data using go-back-N ARQ
• Supervisory frames (S-frames)
providing ARQ mechanism
• Unnumbered frames (U-frames)
• providing supplemental link-control functions
• supporting unacknowledged operation
• poll/final (P/F) bit
– P=1: solicit a response frame from the peer LAPD entity
– F=1 in response frame indicating the response frame transmission
• Information Field
• presents only in I-frames and some unnumbered frames
• max length of information field specified in Q.921=260 bytes
• Frame-Check Sequence Field
• • an error-detecting code for all field except flags using CRC
Link Access Protocol–D Channel
• Rate Adaption
• It is desirable to have devices at data rates < 64 on B
channel
– much existing equipment operates at data rates less than 64
kbps
– having advantages of multiplexing
• ISDN is circuit-switched: all subchannels are on a single circuit
• one B channel for fax and PC (multiplexed) and one B channel for
phone
• Rate adaption: to adapt a terminal with < 64 to a data rate
of 64
– For rates of 8, 16, or 32 kbps, simple bit positioning technique
is used.
Network Layer
Network Layer
Network Layer
Network Layer
Network Layer
Network Layer
Network Layer
BROADBAND ISDN
Broadband Integrated Services Digital Networks
Traditional Network
Infrastructure
Broadband
Broadband Integrated
Integrated Services
Services Networks
Digital Networks
Company
B
Company Broadband
A Integrated Services
Network
(B-ISDN)
Residential
user
x
Broadband
Broadband Integrated
Integrated Services
Services Networks
Digital Networks
Voice
Data
packets MUX
Wasted bandwidth
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TDM
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ATM `
4 3 1 3 2 2 1
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
ATM
• ATM standard (defined by CCITT) is widely
accepted by common carriers as mode of
operation for communication – particularly
BISDN.
• ATM is a form of cell switching using small
fixed-sized packets.
Basic ATM Cell Format
5 Bytes 48 Bytes
Header Payload
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
Private
NNI Public ATM
X
network A
X X
NNI
Public X
UNI
B-ICI Public ATM
network B
X
Public
UNI
X X
Figure 9.5
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
ATM Connections
• two levels of ATM connections:
virtual path connections
virtual channel connections
• indicated by two fields in the cell
header:
virtual path identifier VPI
virtual channel identifier VCI
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
Virtual Paths
Physical Link
Virtual Channels
HEC (8 bits)
Payload
(48 bytes)
ATM Cell Switching
1
Switch voice 67 1
…
video 67 2
video 25 25 N 75
5 voice 32
32 1 67 data 39 3
32 3 39
6 data 32 video 61
…
61 2 67
…
N video 75 N
VP3 a
VP5
a
b ATM ATM
c ATM ATM b
Sw DCC Sw Sw c
d 1 2 3
e
VP2
VP1
ATM d
Sw = switch Sw e
4
A/D AAL
s1 , s2 … cells
Digital voice samples
Video
Data AAL
Bursty variable-length cells
packets
PROTOCOL REFERENCE MODEL
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
User User
information information
AAL AAL
…
End system Network End system
Original ATM
Architecture
• CCITT envisioned four classes of
applications (A-D) requiring four
distinct adaptation layers (1-4) which
would be optimized for an application
class:
A. Constant bit-rate applications CBR
B. Variable bit-rate applications VBR
C. Connection-oriented data applications
D. Connectionless data application
ATM Architecture
An AAL is further divided into:
The Convergence Sublayer (CS)
manages the flow of data to and from SAR sublayer.
Transmission
convergence
sublayer
Physical layer
Physical medium
dependent sublayer
Physical
medium
Original ATM Architecture
• The AAL interface was initially defined as
classes A-D with SAP (service access points)
for AAL1-4.
• AAL3 and AAL4 were so similar that they
were merged into AAL3/4.
• The data communications community concluded
that AAL3/4 was not suitable for data
communications applications. They pushed for
standardization of AAL5 (also referred to as
SEAL – the Simple and Efficient Adaptation
Layer).
• AAL2 was not initially deployed.
Revised ATM Architecture
Revised ATM Service Categories
Class Description Example
• 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
Signaling System #7
Types of Signalling
Signaling in Telecommunications
Network
•Channel Associated Signaling (CAS)
•Common Channel Signaling (CCS)
Switch Switch
A B
Signaling Link
Types of Signalling
OSI SS7
SS7 Protocol Stack
STP
STP
STP
STP
STP
SS7 Networks
SS7 Networks
SS7 Components
SS7 Networks
STP Levels
SSP SSP
ITU-TS
INTERNATIONAL
STP
GATEWAY
STP
NATIONAL STP
ANSI
SSP SSP
SS7 Networks
• Associated:
– There is a static 1 to 1 correspondence to
the voice lines and the signaling packet
line.
– This occurs when 23 lines of a T1 are used
to carry voice and the 24th is used to carry
the SS7 signaling.
– The most wasteful method by far as the
packet channel can often sit empty.
SS7 Networks
STP
STP STP
STP
F link Connects two signaling end points (SSPs and SCPs) in the
(fully associated) same local network
Basic call set up in SS7
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2 6,10
1 5
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