broadband ISDN (B-ISDN)
A standard for transmitting voice, video and data at the same time over fiber optic telephone lines. Broadband ISDN can support data rates of 1.5 million bits per second(bps), but it has not been widely implemented.
Also see Cable vs. DSL in Webopedia's "Did You Know...?" section.
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