Spacenet announces new satellite Backup solution as part of its Connexstar On-Demand family of services
Connexstar Backup enables customers to approach true 100% uptime for mission critical networks
McLean, VA, August 9, 2005 – Spacenet Inc. today announced that it has added a satellite Backup solution to its Connexstar On-Demand family of services, which increases the availability of terrestrial networks. In addition to serving as a backup or fail over service, it can also be utilized for supplemental bandwidth for traffic overflow from terrestrial networks and serves as an alternative broadband multicast communications platform.
As an extension to Spacenet’s Connexstar VSAT and DSL offering, Connexstar Backup offers a network “lifeline” for real-time and critical applications. Connexstar Backup provides a physically diverse backup network path, and has the added flexibility of usage-based billing on a per-site basis.
Customers pay a reduced flat-rate monthly usage fee lower than the Connexstar full-time services, with the option to purchase additional usage on a site-by-site basis. Connextar Backup includes full Internet/intranet/e-mail access; supports a wide range of business applications and is available with Spacenet’s world-class installation and support services.
Spacenet’s Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing Christina Clifton said, “Connexstar Backup is designed to enable a ‘five-nines’ level of individual site availability, an exceptional reliability in wide area networking solutions. In addition to serving as a reliable secondary communication vehicle when terrestrial networks fail, Connexstar Backup also offers enterprises the advantage of inexpensively augmenting their existing networks for multicast and burst connectivity. It’s a perfect offering for customers that need only a part-time network solution, and it’s another example of Spacenet’s continuing innovation and improvement.”
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.
About Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILTF) is a leading provider of products and services for satellite-based communications networks. The Company operates under two business units: (i) Gilat Network Systems ("GNS"), which is a provider of network systems and associated professional services to service providers and operators and (ii) Spacenet, which provides managed services for businesses and governments through its Connexstar service brand, for consumers through its StarBand service brand and for rural communities through Spacenet Rural Communications.
Gilat was founded in 1987 and has shipped over 550,000 Very Small Aperture Terminals (VSATs) to more than 80 countries across six continents. Gilat's headquarters is located in Petah Tikva, Israel. The Company has 14 local offices and 3 service facilities worldwide. Gilat markets the SkyEdge™ Product Family which includes the SkyEdge™ Pro, SkyEdge™ IP, SkyEdge™ Call, SkyEdge™ DVB-RCS and SkyEdge™ Gateway. In addition, the Company markets numerous other legacy products. Visit Gilat at www.gilat.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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