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February 10, 2010

Costa Rica's National Telco to Deploy Gilat SkyEdge II Satellite Network
By Anil Sharma
TMCnet Contributor

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd., a provider of products and services for satellite-based communications networks, reportedly has received new orders from Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), Costa Rica’s national telecommunications operator, for the deployment of Gilat’s VSAT platforms to provide broadband services to approximately 1,000 new sites.


 
As part of the pact, Gilat will provide a new SkyEdge II broadband satellite network, to the country’s state-owned Internet operator, Radiografica Costarricense, (RACSA (News - Alert)), a subsidiary of ICE, to serve 500 corporate and financial customers.
 
Gilat officials said that the new network will enable the delivery of a wide variety of broadband services, including interactive data applications such as videoconferencing, virtual private networks, VoIP services, IP multicasting and broadband Internet connectivity.
 
Company officials said that Gilat’s SkyEdge II is ideally suited to meet the mission-critical application requirements of the corporate and financial services industry such as high-speed connectivity to allow high throughput for file transfer.
 
ICE is also expanding its existing SkyEdge network to provide internet access and toll-quality telephony to an additional 500 rural locations, meeting its Universal Service Obligations.
 
"We are pleased to be able to add Gilat’s SkyEdge II sophisticated technology to offer broadband services to the country’s corporate sector,” said ICE Ing.’s Douglas Cubero, in a statement.
 
Cubero said that with its high efficiency and adaptivity, SkyEdge II gets the most out of the satellite link while providing high-speed connectivity to allow high throughput for file transfer; voice quality for telephony; and other critical services for this sector.
 
He said that Gilat has demonstrated a very high level of commitment to customer support and a solid track record for providing superior telecommunications services. The addition of the new SkyEdge II network in addition to the SkyEdge network expansion, will help the company to continue to serve the needs of the citizens in an efficient manner, he said.
 
"We are pleased to have been chosen once again to help address the communications needs of Costa Rica’s financial and rural communities,” said Russell Ribeiro, Gilat Network Systems’ regional vice president, Latin America. “Continuing our relationship with ICE helps us bring a highly efficient, dependable communications systems to the citizens of Costa Rica.”
 

Anil Sharma is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anil’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Marisa Torrieri

 






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