The National Digital Foundation.
KREN operates Kosovo's dedicated optical backbone, physically and logically separate from commercial ISPs, ensuring low-latency, high-performance, and secure traffic for the academic community.
Core Backbone Capacity 2028
Institutions Connected by 2030
Independent of Commercial ISPs
Part of pan-European Grid
High-Capacity Optical Infrastructure
KREN's optical network is the digital spine of Kosovo. In alignment with the GÉANT GN5-1 project, we are upgrading from 1Gbps to a massive 100Gbps+ international backbone.
Strategic Routing
Utilization of new fiber corridors along Route 6 and Route 7 motorways.
Regional Transit
Direct, high-capacity terrestrial fiber links to Tirana (AL) and Skopje (MK).
Backbone Evolution Pathway
Prizren Sovereign Cloud
Our Tier III-ready data center at ITP Prizren hosts the Azure Stack Hub, ensuring sensitive academic data remains within Kosovo's digital jurisdiction.
Azure Stack Hub
On-premise consistency with global Azure capabilities.
Regional Integration
KREN integrates Kosovo into Europe's next-generation scientific infrastructure via strategic regional corridors.
EAGLE Subsea System
Redundant multi-terabit route via Albania to global hubs.
Balkans Digital Highway
Cross-border connectivity for seamless research data exchange.
Redundancy & Resilience
Redundancy is achieved through multiple cross-border fiber entry points (West/South), ensuring uptime for the national research ecosystem even during regional outages.
Infrastructure Oversight
Network Ops Center
24/7 monitoring of the national backbone and GÉANT peering points.
National CERT
Security operations center protecting connected academic assets.
5G Testbed
Campus private wireless networks at ITP Prizren for research.