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DIGITAL NETWORK The ISDN will be a worldwide public telecommunications network that will deliver a wide variety of services. The ISDN will be defined by the standardization of user interfaces, and will be implemented as a set of digital switches and paths supporting a broad range of traffic types and providing value-added processing services. In practice, there will be multiple networks, implemented within national boundaries, but from the user’s point of view there will be a single, uniformly accessible worldwide network. There are two key aspects to ISDN: universal access and user services. By standardizing the interfaces to ISDN, all ISDN-compatible equipment (e. g. ,telephones computer terminals, personal computers )will be able to attach to the network anywhere in the world and connect to any other attached system. This can lead to extraordinary flexibility. For example, telephone numbers could be assigned in the same fashion as U.S. social security numbers, good for a lifetime. No matter where you lived, or how often you moved, dialing the number permanently assigned to you would always ring your telephone. A digitized network is a prime requirement for integrating a variety of services that the network will support. It is appropriate to view ISDN as being evolutionary in nature and scope. The first step in the process toward realizing an ISDN is end-to-end digitization. Digitization of the telephone network in the United States began in the early 1960s. The early digitized program largely addressed the inter exchange transmission system of the metropolitan network. Use of the time division multiplexing technique, rather than the traditional frequency division multiplexing technique, resulted in an enhanced capacity of the existing telephone plant at minimal cost. Further development in transmission systems, especially those based on fiberoptic transmission techniques, have pushed the digitization program well beyond the most optimistic projections made just