Chapter 2: ISDN Helps People Work Together

Couriers

"In literally hundreds of areas," says TeleSystems Marketing Applications' John Mazalewski, an ISDN systems integrator serving the Northeast, "people still transfer important information physically - on tape, disks and cartridges, by messengers and overnight couriers - because they don't trust analog lines to do the job."

The reason, he notes, is that analog connections are too slow for transferring large files, and too error-prone for critical information.

"The digital connections of ISDN are changing all this," Mazalewski adds. "Soon, in areas that range from printing and publishing to manufacturing and warehousing, transferring data to someone's computer will be as effortless as calling them up to leave a voice-mail message is now."

Other Sections Of This Chapter:

Beginning Of Chapter 2
Linking LANs Together
ISDN: Dialed LAN Connectivity
Individual Access To LANs
Extending A Backbone
Fast Efficient Worldwide File Transfers
ISDN For Network Overflow
High Speed For FAX
Graphic Arts
Prepress
Photo Retrieval
Publishing
Couriers