Wide Area Networks Facilities

Brian Bramer,
School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
De Montfort University, Leicester
(acknowledgements to Ian Vlaeminke for the originals of these notes)
6 November 1993

Contents

  1. Common Carriers and Value Added Networks
  2. Analog Circuits - the A-stream Services
  3. Digital Circuits - the X-stream Services
  4. The Public Data Service - PSS or Switchstream
  5. Viewdata Systems
  6. ISDN (Integrated Services Data Network)
  7. Simple example
  8. Summary