Iskra Sistemi supplied to the mission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Kosovo a new package IP network with a higher capacity than the previous TDM network (time multiplication).

Iskra Sistemi, which began to cooperate with the OSCE in 1999, was actively involved in the project of implementation of the national telecommunication networks and has equipped the European mission in Kosovo with a number of telecommunications equipment pieces (around 30 telecommunication towers, transmission equipment and power suppliers), set up traffic and organised user training. Business cooperation between Iskra Sistemi and the mission continued because the mission was very pleased with the quality of devices and with the business partnership with the Slovenian company Iskra Sistemi. The older-generation devices for digital radio links SparkWave, SparkWaveG and SparkWave GA in Kosovo were joined and replaced by newer, more capable generations of devices – SparkWave GA+ and SparkWave SDR. In the first days of February, Iskra’s experts successfully installed and released for use the new equipment in Kosovo, which Iskra Sistemi has supplied some time ago. Setting up operation of the new system was a demanding task as it was necessary to ensure that telecommunications links were only minimally interrupted.

The old and the new system operated in parallel during testing. The new package IP network will enable the European mission in Kosovo faster and better quality links with European missions in other European capitals.

Iskra’s expert Bojan Domijanić performs measurements at minus 13 degrees Celsius on a telecommunication tower on the Butovec hill near Prishtina in Kosovo.

The photo shows the old and the new external unit of radio links. The new external unit SparkWave SDR on the right (round, with Iskra logo) replaced after testing the old external unit SparkWave G (rectangle with Transmission marking).