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Long-Time Gilat Customer Elektra to Significantly Expand VSAT Network
Gilat Satellite Networks reports that its long-time customer Elektra will be significantly expanding its existing Gilat satellite-based VSAT network with an additional 900 Skystar 360E sites. Elektra's network provides internal connectivity services to its own retail outlets in Mexico, Central America and as far as Peru. Elektra is Mexico's leading home appliance and electronics retail chain with over 850 locations throughout Mexico. Elektra's private VSAT network, which was first deployed by Gilat towards the end of 2002, started with 850 VSATs and was expanded consistently throughout 2003. In the latest network expansion, 400 Skystar 360E VSATs will be deployed in the first quarter of 2004 with an additional 500 sites to be deployed during the year. Among the services provided by Elektra to its many clients are wire transfer, inventory, point of sale, and credit card authorization services as well as internal corporate data transfer applications. Elektra's sister company, Banco Azteca, has branches in most of the Elektra stores. It is the only bank in Mexico that runs all of its banking applications over the satellite using Gilat's advanced VSAT technology. Melinda Givaudan, General Manager for Gilat Mexico, said, "This latest expansion of Elektra's network demonstrates the confidence they have in satellite technology in general and in Gilat's equipment in particular. Satellite-based VSAT technology clearly provides advantages for a network as large as Elektra's, such as the ability to deploy sites anywhere rapidly and cost effectiveness vis a vis terrestrial alternatives. We are pleased to continue to enhance our relationship with Elektra which now has one of the largest satellite-based networks of its kind in Mexico and the Central America region and Peru." The Skystar 360E platform offers a flexible, two-way, satellite-based solution enabling interactive broadband IP and multicasting applications. With DVB standards and extensive IP capabilities, the Skystar 360E supports virtually any data and IP multicast application. Related Links Gilat Satellite Networks SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express 
Gilat Selected to Deploy Africa's First Modernized Postal System
Petah Tikva - Feb 11, 2004Gilat's Spacenet subsidiary has been selected by Posta Kenya to supply a satellite-based communications DialAw@y IP network, linking Kenyan postal offices throughout the country. Gilat's DialAw@y IP platform will be installed in the postal offices, each servicing a LAN connecting three Pcs.
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