ISDN

abbreviation for

1. integrated services digital network: a rapid telecommunications network, combining data transfer and telephony

Example Sentences

Painstakingly staged photographic reconstructions of these 2011 rebellions turn Occupy and the Arab Spring into history, but it’s a two-screen video, titled “ISDN,” that reveals Douglas’s keen ability to reconstitute the present via fictional interventions into the past.

From New York Times

They discovered a substantial quantity of the chemical ISDN, which is used for drugs to treat angina patients.

From BBC

An alternative to Skype is Audio TX Pots, which is claimed to offer "ISDN quality over a standard analogue telephone line".

From The Guardian

The guitar signal was actually sent from Jodrell Bank's control room, via ISDN, to its sibling radio telescope in Cambridge, which transmitted it to the moon, and then the Lovell at Jodrell Bank picked up the part of the signal that was reflected back off the Doves' side of the moon… like a cosmic delay pedal.

From The Guardian

The chief advantage of ISDN, especially for businesses, is that it enables phone users to transmit voices, video images and computer data along the same line simultaneously.

From Time Magazine Archive