Loral Skynet Launches New Suite of Satellite-Based Contingency Services

BEDMINSTER, N.J., June 16, 2006/Satnews Daily/ — Loral Skynet, a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (NASDAQ:LORL), has launched a new suite of satellite-based Contingency Services designed to help businesses and government organizations minimize Internet Protocol (IP)-data network interruptions caused by large-scale natural disasters such as hurricanes, as well as protect against the everyday outages that frequently occur in multi-path terrestrial network links.

Loral Skynet said the new Contingency Services capability is the most comprehensive of its kind, providing world-class continuity and emergency restoration network solutions. These services assure the survivability of terrestrial networks via an automatic and seamless transfer of IP-data traffic to satellite connections. Skynet Contingency Services include:

·        SkyReach Ensure: A business continuity network solution designed to provide pre-planned, continuous network connectivity for all vital business and government functions.

·        SkyReach SAVER (Satellite Access by VSAT for Emergency Recovery): An emergency restoration network solution designed as a disaster recovery option where a rapid response mechanism is built into a network to minimize downtime and loss of production.

Both of Skynet's new Contingency Services use Skynet's Telstar satellite fleet and a global fiber network that provide low-cost, high-availability network connectivity backed by custom-tailored Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

Loral said the unique aspects of Skynet's Contingency Services include:

·        A contingency network that has been sized to provide greater guarantees for the bandwidth customers need, when they need it. Unlike many other offerings that use a shared and oversubscribed model to support business continuity and emergency restoration services, Skynet's solution provides greater assurance for actually delivering these services at the time of crisis.

·        SLAs that are responsive to demanding customer requirements – providing assurances for failover services in less than one minute and recovery services in less than one hour.

·        Flexible and robust offerings that meet a broad range of scenario-driven customer requirements for dedicated as well as dynamic usage or volume-based billing so that customers only pay for what they use.

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