ISDN References

Books

1. William Stallings, "ISDN and Broadband ISDN with Frame Relay and ATM, 3rd ed.", Prentice Hall, 1995. Excellent in-depth technical descriptions of the ISDN standard
2. Gerald L. Hopkins, "The ISDN Literacy Book", Addison Wesley, 1995. Great for history, politics, and a light but very well done technical description of ISDN. Brings to light many of the general issues relating to the success and failure of ISDN.
3. Hermann J. Helgert, "Integrated Services Digital Networks - Architectures/Protocols/Standards", Addison Wesley, 1991. Good detailed technical description of ISDN, somewhat more detailed than the Stallings book in some areas. Becoming out of date.
4. John M. Griffiths, "ISDN Explained", John Wiley & Sons, 1992. A good technical introduction to ISDN. Becoming out of date.
5. William Stallings, "Advances in ISDN and Broadband ISDN", IEEE Computer Society Press, 1992. A variety of varying quality papers on various issues.
6. William Stallings, "Data and Computer Communications, 4th ed.", Macmillan Publishing, 1994. A good general reference for computer networking, telecommunications, etc.
7. David Angell, "ISDN for Dummies", IDG Books Worldwide, 1995. Completely consumer oriented, contains much information that other sources ignore, but completely glosses over most details of the ISDN architecture. Includes instructions for setting up several common ISDN devices, which is useful but will soon be out of date.

WWW References

Starting Points

1. Dan Kegel's ISDN Page - This is basically the center of the ISDN web, mentioned most commonly as a good place to start.
2. comp.dcom.isdn Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - A great bunch of information, mostly consumer-oriented.
3. Network Computing's ISDN Online - some interesting articles.
4. Ascend Frequently Asked Questions: Top - Even though it is related to Ascend products, it still has some very good general info for consumers.
5. ISDNbook - Table of Contents A good set of info provided by PacBell.
6. Telecom Information Resources - A searchable directory of even more web sites.
7. Network Bibliography - a search form for a bibliography of networking papers.
8. Information on ISDN
9. WWW Virtual Library Comms & Telecoms: BROADBAND
10. The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Communications & Telecommunications
11. WWW Virtual Library Comms & Telecoms: MULTIMEDIA
12. WWW Virtual Library Comms & Telecoms: STANDARDS, TESTING AND PROTOCOLS
13. ISDN Seite - a good list of references, many in German.
14. Books on ISDN - Still more references.

    Information on Specific Topics

15. Combinet's ISDN Backgrounder
16. Common-ISDN-API
17. Remote file info.bellcore.com/pub/BISDN_SIG - Some of the ITU Q series standards documents.
18. Integrated Services Digital Network: An ISDN Primer
19. ISDN Conformance Testing
20. Cell-Relay FAQ (part 1/2)
21. CIUG Conference on Designing and Implementing ISDN Applications
22. Pan-European Approvals for ISDN

    Organizations

23. NIST's High Speed Networks Group Home Page
24. North American ISDN Users' Forum (NIUF).
25. Texas ISDN Users Group (TIUG)
26. DSP and Telecomms group (slow/broken)
27. ZTIT
28. ATM DOCUMENT COLLECTION 3
29. ITU (formerly CCITT) (stingy about making recommendations available)

    Service Providers, Equipment Manufacturers

30. Charlie Massel's Home Page - Internet Access Providers offering ISDN.
31. Basic Rate ISDN from PacBell.
32. Bellsouth - ISDN Individual Line
33. Bellcore ISDN Home Page - National ISDN
34. Ameritech ISDN
35. Telecom Services (of SwissNet)
36. NETC Home Page
37. Stentor ISDN Services
38. AVM, High performance ISDN
39. Cameron Communications Group
40. ISDN Product Developer's Guide - List of products and development resources.
41. Ascend Communications Home Page - they make ISDN equipment.