Evolution of telecommunications in Russia

Author

Sokolov, Nikolai ; Mikov, Alexander

Author_Institution

Res. Inst. for Telecommun., St. Petersburg, Russia

Volume

33

Issue

7

fYear

1995

fDate

7/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

78

Lastpage

85

Abstract

The current status of Russia´s telecommunications infrastructure does not correspond to the country´s increasing demands. The creation of a commercial digital overlay network is apparently the only possible solution to provide modern telecommunications services. This article describes the following aspects of the evolution of telecommunications in Russia: a classification of the main specific features of the existing telecommunications networks; an analysis of the telecommunications statistics and forecasting of the main characteristics; likely future scenarios of the evolving telecommunications system; and the main telecommunications projects that will be carried out in the nearest future. Until now, the public switched telephone network (PSTN), a unique system providing basic dialogue services (speech, data transmission, etc.), was the single solution to provide national telecommunications. For this reason, we first describe the main features of the Russian national PSTN

Keywords

digital communication; switching networks; telecommunication services; telephone networks; PSTN; Russia; commercial digital overlay network; data transmission; dialogue services; public switched telephone network; speech transmission; telecommunications infrastructure; telecommunications networks; telecommunications projects; telecommunications services; telecommunications statistics; telecommunications system; Bit rate; Communication system signaling; Data communication; Intelligent networks; Speech; Statistical analysis; Telecommunication services; Telecommunication switching; Telephony; Tellurium;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.391443

Filename

391443