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broadband ISDN (B-ISDN) Last modified: Thursday, July 14, 2005

A standard for transmitting voice, video and data at the same time over fiber optic telephone lines. Broadband ISDN can support data rates of 1.5 million bits per second (bps), but it has not been widely implemented. Also see Cable vs. DSL in Webopedia's "Did You Know...?" section.

Broadband ISDN page This page explains what broadband ISDN is, its importance and anticipated uses. Broadband ISDN tutorial page A comprehensive tutorial for students on broadband ISDN communications. Technical notes on broadband ISDN These technical notes provide an introduction to broadband ISDN as well as numerous links to items like services, network architecture, signaling, protocol reference manuals, and information on asynchronous transfer mode.