Integrated Services Digital Network:

A communications protocol called the Integrated Services Digital
Network (ISDN) has been developed as an international standard
for linking public and private information networks.  This
standard promises to lower data transmission costs and
accommodate large volumes of data over long distances.  The ISDN
will facilitate global connectivity, information exchange, and
interdisciplinary collaboration (Brand, 1988).  As individual
professionals become more specialized (or generalized) they will
increasingly be able to connect to the necessary general (or
specialized) information resources to supplement their own
knowledge base.  The ISDN protocol may prove to be the key in
realizing the capability for on-line consultations between
professionals at remote locations, and as a consequence, foster a
significantly better informed CRM decision process.

<ffile48>   Connectivity