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SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS

September 1994, Volume 12, Number 7
TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE AND RUSSIA
Guest Editors -- V. A. Bolotin, R. C. Frantz, and V. D. Sapozhnikova
Section Guest Editors -- B. S. Goldstein (Russia), A. Jajszczyk (Poland), A. E. Koucheryavy (Russia), and G. Sallai (Hungary)
Guest Editorial
V. A. Bolotin, R. C. Frantz, and V. D. Sapozhnikova

From the Hungarian Guest Editor
G. Sallai

From the Polish Guest Editor
A. Jajszczyk

From the Russian Guest Editors
A. E. Koucheryavy and B. S. Goldstein

PAPERS
Telecommunications in Russia: Current State and Development Plans
Switching Systems in Russian Urban Telephone Networks
A. E. Koucheryavy and A. Sinyakov

Toll Telephone Exchanges and Signaling Systems in the Russian Long-Distance Network
V. T. Gluhov and M. A. Zharkov

Design Concepts for Rural Telephone Networks in Russia
E. A. Melamud

Development of the Urban and Rural Transmission Networks in Russian
B. Z. Berlin and N. A. Sokolov

Distinctive Characteristics of Call-Handling Procedures and Signaling Logic in a Russian Public Telephone Network
B. S. Goldstein and L. G. Slutsky

Telephone Access to Special Services in Russian
W. Morew, N. Nicolaew, A. Moroz, and A. Winogradow

Automation and Centralization of Maintenance Processes in St. Petersburg Metropolitan Transmission Network
B. Berlin and A. Kostin

Digitalization of Urban and Rural Telephone Networks in Russia
B. S. Goldstein

New Development in Telecommunications in Hungary
Traffic Routing in the Warsaw Metropolitan Network: A Deployment Strategy
M. Pioro, J. Lubacz, A. Tomaszewski, and D. Bursztynowski

ISDN and New Services in Poland: Opportunities and Obstacles
J. Lubacz and P. Ostrowski

Land Mobile Radio Systems in Poland
W. Holubowicz and T. Bortnik

POLPAK -- The First Public Data Network in Poland
P. Pobozan and M. Wachowski

TELBANK -- A Telecommunication Network for Banking System in Poland
A. Jajszczyk, E. Macniak, and M. Stando

Data Telecommunication Needs for Polish State Finance Sector
A. Michalski

Issues on Telecommunications in Hungary
Present State and Future Plans of Telecommunications Services in Hungary
G. Sallai

Economic Issues of Telecommunications Development in Hungary
K. Borsos

Advanced Service Provisioning in a Partly Digitalized Network Environment
P. Eisler and O. Kovacs

Microwave Communications Systems and Networks in Hungary
T. Berceli

PLANET: A Tool for Telecommunications Network Planning and its Applications in Hungary
L. Jereb, T. Jakab, M. Telek, A. Sipos, and G. Paksy

CALLS FOR PAPERS
Wireless Local Communications
Circuit Switching for Broadband ISDN and Beyond
Distributed Systems Built on Gigabit Networks