The Need to Introduce a New Tactical Telecommunication System in the Slovenian Army

Slovenian army used for command and control tactical telecommunications system, which was introduced into operational use in 2004. The system is based on TDM technology and does not allow enough bandwidth for command and control services, explored in this paper on the tactical level of battalions and brigades. In response to the problem of bandwidth, the Slovenian Armed Forces started to develop an tactical backbone telecommunications system, based on IP technology, which is not within the bottleneck of bandwidth. This paper will describe tactical telecommunication system of Slovenian Army, define the command and control services and how much bandwidth they need. Both will be compared and determined whether a tactical telecommunications system have enough bandwidth for command and control services.