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Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)

Mod. DL TC73
 
(Vers. 2.1)

The DE LORENZO Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) deals with the study of the architecture and the operation of the ISDN digital network.
List of the lessons:
1. General concepts on ISDN
2. Structure of the ISDN network
3. How to connect to the ISDN network
4. ISDN and OSI model - the Physical Level
5. ISDN and OSI model - the Link Level
6. ISDN and OSI model - the Network Level
7. The components of an ISDN network
8. ISDN telephone communication
9. ISDN Protocol Analysis
10. ISDN data communication
 
Educational technologies:
Theory
The basic theoretical subjects are shown on the computer through WEB pages, with an efficient hyper textual navigation.
Practical experiments
The practical experiments on real devices represent the indispensable completion of the training process.
 
 
Details of the contents:  
Lesson 1: General concepts on ISDN
Generalities on the ISDN network
Structure of the ISDN network
Questions
Lesson 2: Structure of the ISDN network 
Topography of an ISDN network
Reference points - Interfaces "U","T","S","R"
Special interfaces
The OSI Model
Questions
Lesson 3: How to connect to the ISDN network 
Connection through Base Access 
Point-to-multipoint  and point-to-point configuration
Configuration of the telephone numbers
Connection through Primary Access 
Questions
Lesson 4: ISDN and OSI Model - The Physical Level
Generalities
Interface U
Interface S: line code
Interface S: frames, clock and synchronism
Interface S: access control to channel "D"
Interface S: passive bus (bus-S)
The physical level of the primary access 
Questions
Lesson 5: ISDN and OSI Model - The Link Level
Generalities
The structure of the frame HDLC-LAPD
The structure of the frame LAPD: the fields FLAGS and ADDRESS
The structure of the frame LAPD: the fields Control, Information, FCS
The frames LAPD
Activation/deactivation of level 2 and management of the TEI
Example of a session at level 2
Questions
Lesson 6: ISDN and OSI Model - The Network Level
Generalities
Structure of the message
The informative elements of the message: Protocol discriminator and Call Reference
The informative elements of the message: Message Type
The informative elements of the message: other informative elements
Example of base call
Questions
Lesson 7: The components of an ISDN network
Components of the ISDN network
The ISDN exchange
The ISDN telephone 
The Terminal Adapter
Devices for Video communications
Protocol Analyzer
Questions
Lesson 8: ISDN telephone communication 
The ISDN exchange
ISDN telephone network
Experiment: Using the ISDN telephone
Experiment: Mononumber ISDN network
Experiment: Multinumber ISDN network
Lesson 9: ISDN protocol analysis
Experiment: Using the ISDN tester
Experiment: Protocol analysis with tester and PC
Experiment: Protocol analysis with tester
Lesson 10: ISDN data communication
The Terminal Adapter
Programming the Terminal Adapter
Experiment: Connection between Mononumber TA
Experiment: Connection between Multinumber TA
Experiment: Connection of multiple devices on the S bus.
    
NOTE:      For the performance of all the experiments with this trainer you need:
Nr.2 Personal Computers complete with serial interface and Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP operating system