ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) transmission is fast and available virtually everywhere within the Bell Atlantic® region. From offices, homes, and remote locations, ISDN lets your employees tap resources and use new business applications where video images and data flow simultaneously with fax transmissions and phone conversations.

ISDN supports a wide range of customer services by providing a seamless exchange of information in any medium — voice, data, or video — at high speeds. You'll have the support you need to use today's most innovative, fully integrated communications solutions to meet immediate challenges of a distributed work force and improve productivity. Using ISDN enables you to benefit from new forces shaping the workplace — including a growing number of teleworkers, dispersed project teams, resource sharing, on-line connectivity, and the need to provide better customer service.

ISDN sends clear digital signals at high speeds over regular phone lines. Without a major network investment, ISDN enables your existing phone line to carry voice, data, and video traffic at speeds approximately 10 times faster than an analog line without compression. With compression, speeds can be even faster. Calls can be completed faster, too — in as little as three seconds, compared to the regular call completion speed of 12-30 seconds. Combining ISDN and Centrex gives your voice system additional power and improves productivity. Centrex with ISDN offers features like multiple call appearances, one touch feature activation, line sharing between two employees, call duration, caller identification, and software directory number on your ISDN sets. ISDN gives businesses like yours the benefits of private-line networks — without the expense or inflexibility.

• Increase productivity using ISDN's higher speeds — ISDN utilizes two 64 Kbps channels which can be combined into one 128 Kbps "pipe" that's about 10 times faster than today's 14.4 Kbps modems.
  
• Save money using higher rates of speed which can result in shorter connection times and potentially lower usage charges.
  
• Avoid the costs and inflexibility of dedicated lines — the same ISDN line can be used to carry both voice and data so there's no need to wait for a fax to finish before making a call.
  
• Take advantage of new communications applications (such as remote LAN access and videoconferencing) that can reduce travel costs and product development time.
  
• Enjoy clear, digital transmission which results in fewer errors and re-transmissions and greater network reliability — all of which save you time and increase productivity.