Fazoli's Italian Restaurants Selects Spacenet's Connexstar Service For Broadband Retail Network In 33 States
McLean, VA, June 1, 2004 — Spacenet Inc. today announced it has been chosen by Fazoli’s Management, Inc. to provide a Connexstar broadband satellite network to Fazoli’s restaurants in 33 states nationwide.
Under the terms of the three-year agreement, Spacenet will deploy its Connexstar service at 150 Fazoli’s corporate restaurant sites. The network will support a range of retail networking applications, including point-of-sale polling, fast credit authorization, Xcellenet remote systems management tools and corporate intranet applications.
Floyd Goldberg, Fazoli’s vice president, information technology, said, “We are moving quickly to adopt a variety of IP-based applications to further optimize our in-store operating efficiency and customer service. We chose Spacenet’s Connexstar service because it provides us with an extremely reliable, always-on network connection that is available immediately at any of our locations around the country.”
Goldberg added, “A high-speed, persistent connection is critical to the deployment of our new Internet-based in-store technology – especially our IP credit card terminals. Connexstar’s superior support for these IP applications made it a clear choice for this project.”
Spacenet President and CEO Bill Gerety said, “As restaurants increasingly move their core management applications to the Web, the need for cost-effective, always-on broadband connectivity grows rapidly. Fazoli’s joins an expanding list of restaurant enterprises that have chosen Connexstar as their primary provider for nationwide high-speed Internet connectivity.”
Background on Spacenet’s Connexstar service
Connexstar provides commercial-grade, always-on broadband connectivity to multi-site enterprises of any size. The service supports a wide range of business applications, including high-speed credit authorization, in-store licensed music, distance learning, content multicasting and secure private networking services – all through a single, compact, remote access device incorporating advanced networking and routing functionality.
About Fazoli’s
Based in Lexington, Kentucky, Fazoli’s Management, Inc. operates more than 400 Fazoli’s company owned and franchised restaurants in 33 states and the Philippines, employing more than 8,000 persons. Visit Fazoli’s at www.fazolis.com.
About Spacenet
Spacenet is the worldwide services group of Gilat Satellite Networks. Spacenet Inc., based in McLean, Virginia, provides connectivity, value-added applications and managed networks to customers in North America and worldwide, including its Connexstar satellite and hybrid terrestrial broadband networking solutions for enterprise and government customers, and StarBand residential and small-office VSAT services. Spacenet has more than 20 years of experience providing wide area networks, application support, customer care and network management for some of the largest satellite-based networks in the world. Visit Spacenet at www.spacenet.com.
Spacenet Media Contact:
David Myers
Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development
(703) 848-1200
david.myers@spacenet.com
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