ISDN in North America

Author

Stokesberry, Dan ; Wakid, Shukri

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Volume

31

Issue

5

fYear

1993

fDate

5/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

88

Lastpage

94

Abstract

The North American ISDN Users´ Forum (NIUF), intended to bring together the communities involved in shaping a market-driven competitive ISDN, is discussed. These communities include users, service providers, network equipment manufacturers, customer premises-equipment (CPE) manufacturers, and applications software developers. The role of the NIUF in the product development cycle, NIUF activities, and other important ISDN activities that complement the NIUF work are described. The beginning deployment of a national ISDN and a major demonstration of ISDN capability within North America are also discussed. It is argued that the budding cooperation between the NIUF, the standards bodies, the Corporation for Open Systems (COSs), and Bellcore suggests that migration toward a single set of well-defined specifications is underway.<>

Keywords

ISDN; telecommunication standards; Bellcore; COS; CPE manufacturers; Corporation for Open Systems; NIUF; North America; North American ISDN Users´ Forum; applications software developers; customer premises-equipment; national ISDN; network equipment manufacturers; product development cycle; service providers; standards bodies; Communication standards; Computer industry; Europe; ISDN; Laboratories; Manufacturing; NIST; North America; Product development; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.212427

Filename

212427