Gilat's SkyEdge platform represents the next generation of VSAT capabilities. It is capable of greater speeds, provides stronger encryption and better network management, and is more flexible than previous generations of Gilat's industry-leading VSAT platforms.

Features and benefits include:

• Voice performance: SkyEdge leverages Gilat’s market leadership in VSAT telephony (> 90% marketshare) to deliver unmatched native voice and VoIP quality. SkyEdge offers voice prioritization and managed VoIP capabilities.
• VPN acceleration: SkyEdge provides accelerated Cisco VPN at the IDU without PC-based software.
• Security: SkyEdge uses AES/Rijndael 128-bit symmetric block cipher (optional inbound and outbound). Most security experts consider DES a “compromised” and obsolete encryption algorithm.
• Built-in QoS and support for DiffServ: SkyEdge supports end-to-end QoS including DiffServ packet tagging for full interoperability with MPLS networks.
• Network efficiency: SkyEdge offers efficient space segment utilization.
• Superior upstream access scheme: SkyEdge uses Gilat FTDMA (Frequency and Time Division Multiple Access) access scheme. This technology distributes VSATs across a broad range of frequencies as well as time slots, so network-sizing maintenance is reduced significantly.
• Mesh and multi-star network architecture support: SkyEdge Pro offers mesh/multi-star topologies (critical for peer-to-peer voice).
• Standards support: SkyEdge is certified as DVB-RCS.
  

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