Chapter 2: ISDN Helps People Work Together

Fast Efficient Worldwide File Transfers

The importance of timely data is hard to overestimate, and the ability to send and receive enormous quantities of information from one place to another is one of the corporate information manager's greatest challenges and responsibilities.

Today, most of these high-volume transmissions travel through dedicated channels. But many MIS managers, especially at companies with strong commitments to ISDN, find that dialed, bonded B channels give a flexibility and economy not offered by standard leased lines.

At several locations in New York City's financial district, for example, daily and weekly updates of stock quotations are now forwarded by dialed ISDN links instead of the disks, magnetic tapes, messengers and couriers previously used.