Nicaragua's Top Telco Taps Gilat for Multi-Service Satellite Broadband Network With GSM Backhauling Solution

PETAH TIKVA, Israel, Aug. 25, 2006/Satnews Daily/ ― Nicaragua’s Empresa Nicaraguense de Telecomunicaciones (Enitel) has contracted Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq:GILT) to deliver its SkyEdge broadband satellite hub station and VSAT terminals to provide Nicaraguan and Latin American customers with a bundle of services, including Internet access, rural telephony, GSM trunking, fax and prepaid telephony.

SkyAbis is an integral part of the SkyEdge multi-service platform and uses dynamic bandwidth allocation with high space-segment efficiency for GSM backhaul. SkyAbis enables telecom operators to deploy a hybrid network that extends the reach of their terrestrial and cellular infrastructure to remote communities and provide voice and data services where voice coverage was previously unavailable.

Gilat said this unified system presents a low total cost of ownership solution and expands telecom operators' offerings by providing satellite backhaul services to mobile operators.

Enitel, one of Nicaragua’s biggest telecommunications company, has deployed Gilat VSAT equipment at hundreds of sites to serve residential and corporate customers since 2001.

Erez Antebi, CEO for Gilat Network Systems (GNS) a business unit of Gilat Satellite Networks said, the agreement will allow SkyEdge to support the very latest broadband voice and data applications for a large number of users, regardless of their geographic location.

Gilat's SkyEdge is a satellite communications platform that delivers high-end voice, data and video services over a single, powerful system. Gilat said SkyEdge's flexible architecture and efficient space segment utilization make it an ideal platform for operators and service providers.

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