Spacenet Rural Communications Deploys Gilat's SkyEdge II High-Performance Broadband Satellite Network to Serve Banco De La Nacion and Other Customers in Peru
Thursday March 26, 2009, 9:05 am EDT
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PETAH TIKVA, Israel, March 26, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NasdaqGM:GILT - News) today announced that its business unit, Spacenet Rural Communications, is deploying a SkyEdge II network to cover hundreds of sites in Peru. The new network is being used to serve Peru's national bank, Banco de la Nacion, a long time customer of Gilat, as well as other private businesses.
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With the migration to the new network, which includes a SkyEdge II hub and hundreds of SkyEdge II IP VSATs, Peru's Banco de la Nacion, as well as other enterprise customers, will benefit from enhanced voice and data networking services. This includes high-speed connectivity to allow high throughput for file transfer, transactional service applications such as ATMs and voice quality IP telephony. The new network provides Banco de la Nacion with a high availability solution including VSAT redundancy, in addition to providing excellent Quality of Service (QoS) for mission-critical applications.
SkyEdge II is an excellent solution for the banking and corporate sectors. With its high efficiency and full adaptivity, SkyEdge II gets the most out of the satellite link while providing a high-performance solution to customers.
``SkyEdge II provides us the competitive advantage we need to best serve the complex requirements of our customers,' said Arieh Rohrstock, General Manager, Spacenet Rural Peru. ``We are already benefiting from the platform's high efficiency which is contributing to space segment savings. With increasing space segment prices and lack of available capacity, we intend to upgrade hundreds of more internet and data sites to the SkyEdge II platform, allowing us to continue growing with internet services while reducing bandwidth consumption.'
SkyEdge II is a standards-based system using DVB-S2 and DVB-RCS. With better efficiencies and full adaptivity for both the inbound and outbound channels, it provides higher performance that serves the growing requirements of end-users. SkyEdge II enables the delivery of high-quality voice, broadband data and video services for diverse environments including enterprises, rural networks, cellular backhaul and government network applications.
SkyEdge II adds new capabilities to Gilat's industry-leading SkyEdge family of VSAT products. Gilat's SkyEdge portfolio enables the delivery of high-quality voice, broadband data and video services. SkyEdge represents Gilat's extensive knowledge base and field-proven product offering, acquired through two decades of experience. SkyEdge's flexible architecture and efficient space segment utilization make it an ideal platform for operators and service providers. With Gilat's comprehensive SkyEdge portfolio, service providers can choose the most suitable product for their application needs.
