Power to the people [teleworking]

The wide availability of basic rate integrated services digital network (ISDN) has the potential to provide the small or home office with a previously unheard of level and quality of communications. The outcome is that the medium for effective communications can be contiguous from desk to desk, wherever the desks may be situated. Together with relatively cheap computing power these communications facilities are removing the differences between computing as used in the home and computing as used in the professional working environment, thus opening up the potential for teleworking on a large scale. The more important trends in the enabling technologies for teleworking are described