Spacenet was selected to provide SkyEdge TM broadband satellite terminals, deployment, operations and maintenance to support state lotteries.

The multi-year contract awards from the past month include Texas and Illinois while Indiana, Iowa and Louisiana were deployed earlier in 2010. The five networks, totaling almost 33,000 lottery sites in all, benefit from SkyEdge's efficient bandwidth management, security and quality of service ideal for applications requiring high availability and uptime such as lottery and gaming networks.

Spacenet has been supporting networks for the state gaming industry for almost twenty years. The company has established the trust of lottery industry partners and state lottery agencies through an ongoing commitment to the unique needs of the industry.

Spacenet optimizes the performance of lottery applications over satellite and provides VSAT solutions tailored to the specific needs of the lottery market.

"Spacenet has worked with multiple gaming industry partners for almost 20 years, and we have some of the largest revenue generating lotteries as our customers," said Spacenet CEO Andreas Georghiou.

"We are focused on providing the best VSAT-based networking solutions and Total Cost of Ownership for lotteries across the continent, and look forward to serving our new customers".

Spacenet solutions support all vendor lottery terminals and applications including video based games and traditional non-video games. Its operations and technology have the capability and track record to support today's most advanced lottery applications and the flexibility to host emerging games that will provide new sources of revenue in the future.

Gilat announced previously in 2010 that it has been selected to provide VSATs for lotteries in West Africa and in North Africa.