Integrated Services Digital Networks: Concepts, Policies, and Emerging Issues

Abstract

Western European nutiom, particularly France and Germuny, bate advanced centralized planning for the introduction of ISDN, but in the United States trial have proceeded slowly due to a luck of universal standards and the state of deregulatory policy.

Knowledge utilization: The role of new communication technologies

“…Once digitized, however, they share a common framework for transmission and transformation. Digital media such as computers and ISDN circuits carry all forms of digital communication interchangeably (see Wigand, 1988). Furthermore, by manipulating a few bits in the digital stream, digitized text is resealed, digitized images change their color, digitized voices change register, and digitized video is frozen for editing.…”