Includes documents, news items, reports from government agencies, legislative proposals, summary of laws, and public statements intended to provide an overview of the critical issues in today's policy debate. Both sides of an issue are fairly presented. Includes: digital telephony; the clipper chip and the encryption debate; information warfare: documents on the Security Policy Board and other efforts to undermine the Computer Security Act; and export controls and international views on encryption. Illustrated.

Lower pricing, wider availability, and a driving need for greater bandwidth (spurred on by the Internet) have combined to make ISDN services popular. This nuts-and-bolts factbook provides hands-on technical, financial, and strategic planning techniques to implement ISDN for residential or business-oriented access, point-to-point data connections, support for video conferencing, and backbone support for LAN/WAN interconnection.

The North American Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) Users' Forum developed this national ISDN solutions catalog, which explains over 30 solutions for ISDN applications that members identified as most important in a recent survey. Some of the solutions detailed include video conferences, screen sharing, facsimile, caller ID, telecommunications and file transfer. Also lists more than 120 products that 60 suppliers have identified as part of these solutions.

Provides a comprehensive, detailed description of the fundamental architectural principles and protocols used in ATM-based networks, as well as interworking with IP and Frame Relay based networks Begins with general coverage of ATM, but moves quickly into the most important new area of ATM--IP switching, which allows communications companies to combine IP routing with ATM switching Offers the reader a clear understanding of the evolutionary trends in the development of ATM A Wiley-IEEE Press publication