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Loral Skynet, Global Crossing To Provide IP Network For British Council

Bedminster NJ (SPX) Apr 29, 2005
Loral Skynet announced last Thursday that it has teamed with Global Crossing to provide a communications network to the British Council, a not-for-profit organization sponsored by the British Government's Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Using its satellite and IP-based SkyReach services, Skynet will connect 130 British Council remote offices worldwide, complementing Global Crossing's terrestrial platform to reach more than 260 sites worldwide.

Together, these satellite and terrestrial resources will create an IP virtual private network (VPN) for high-speed two-way data services, including Internet and email access, large file transfers, content distribution and videoconferencing services.

Through SkyReach and coupled with its worldwide infrastructure and installation partners, Skynet is the only satellite services company in the world that can extend, install and maintain satellite delivered IP connectivity on a truly seamless and global basis.

With its tiered SLAs (service level agreements) and quality-of-service features, SkyReach enables a natural extension of terrestrial MPLS systems and a platform for multicast and broadcast video requirements.

Skynet is developing relationships and replicating the SkyReach solution on a wide scale - where the IP network extension requirement is central.

"Loral Skynet is proud to support Global Crossing and the British Council with our SkyReach IP-based networking services," said Patrick Brant, president, Loral Skynet.

"Today, Loral Skynet is the only company in the world with the capability and resources, in space and on the ground, to offer such a robust, global IP-based solution.

"Along with our 40-year heritage of superior customer service and reliability, this distinguishes Skynet as the leading global provider of IP-over-satellite services."

The British Council is a registered charity whose aim is to promote cultural relations and educational partnerships between the UK and the rest of the world.

British Council offices, depending on location, will use space, ground-based resources, or a combination of both, to attain speeds of up to 2 Mbps on the forward link and 512 Kbps on the return link.

Skynet's SkyReach solution for the British Council includes the installation and maintenance of customer premises equipment at 130 sites, network management and support from Skynet's Rockville, Md. network operations center, and the use of capacity on satellites including Skynet's Telstar 12.

Global Crossing will use Skynet's SkyReach service to complement its terrestrial multi-protocol label-switching (MPLS) network.

Skynet's flexible and reliable SkyReach solution provides secure, resilient, and cost-effective connectivity for both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint communications.

The hybrid combination of space and terrestrial infrastructure results in a high network availability thereby ensuring support for time- and content-critical communications.

In addition to hosting the British Council's new IP-based communications network, Loral Skynet also provides the infrastructure and global support to Global Crossing for the British Government's Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Telecommunications Network (FTN), a highly secure worldwide network extending to 240 sites in 140 countries.

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