integrated services digital network | Network using the digitization techniques in order to transmit, within the same infrastructure, several voice, data or image services. It permits the connection of telephonic equipment (automatic telephone exchange, telephone station), computers (terminals) as well as facsimile or videotex. Public digital network giving access, through a single line, to a whole series of services (telephone, telex, videotex, hardware, etc.). In France, the ISDN network is called NUMERIS. (FRA) |