Southwestern Bell Telephone's ISDN experience

Stephenson, Richard W.

Southwestern Bell Telephone's ISDN experience

Southwestern Bell Telephone's (SWBTs) integrated services digital network (ISDN) experience has been heavily influenced by the realization that from a customer perspective, the most important aspects of ISDN are its applications. The authors describe the following ISDN applications that SWBT has been exploring: desktop conferencing; asynchronous protocol conversion to SNA/SDLC; VTAM INN link replacement; asynchronous protocol conversion to SNA/SDLC with multiplexing; remote 3174 multiplexing via B channel packet; remote 3174 multiplexing via B channel packet and NPSI; 327X emulation via SIMPC, SIM-VTAM, and NPSI; 327X emulation with QLLC and NPSI; asynchronous access to private packet-switched networks; asynchronous access to UNIX host; asynchronous access to UNIX host via PAD and X.25 multiplexing; 327X coaxial cable elimination; extended local area network with passive bus; asynchronous access to Ethernet terminal server; dedicated line replacement (64 kb/s); asynchronous modem pooling (out-dial); asynchronous modem pooling (in-dial); ISDN wide-area networking; ISDN data gateway; gateway to AppleTalk network; application processor features; circuit-switched compressed video; and Ethernet LAN bridging


BELL TELEPHONE
ISDN
ACCESS PROTOCOLS
ATHEROSCLEROSIS
CIRCUIT
COAXIAL CABLES
ETHERNET NETWORKS
ISDN
LAN EMULATION
MODEMS
NETWORK SERVERS
VIDEO COMPRESSION

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