This White Paper provides an overview of the wide area network (WAN) issues involved in remote access. It defines common ISDN and WAN terminology, delivers an overview of analog and ISDN connectivity, and explains how remote access calls are processed over the wide area network to connect with remote access servers. This primer gives a brief overview of temote access servers policy and the telephony infrastructure,and discusses the importance of bandwidth management to remote access applications over the telephone network.The ISDN and WAN Primer concludes with Frequently Asked Questions about ISDN and WAN remote access.
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