Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [NASDAQ:GILT) has announced that one of Russia’s largest telecom companies, North-West Telecom, is expanding their Gilat SkyEdge satellite network. This will bring telephony and broadband Internet services to a growing number of remote communities in North Western Russia. North-West Telecom originally deployed a SkyEdge VSAT network earlier this year to serve several hundred sites in the Arkhangelsk region. The network expansion will serve many more sites in the Murmansk, Karelia, Komi and Vologda regions. Hundreds of SkyEdge Pro VSATs and more than 60 SkyEdge Gateways will provide high-speed mesh trunking and IP connectivity.
North-West Telecom’s deployment of the SkyEdge VSAT network fulfills a Universal Service Obligation (USO) to meet the modern telecommunications requirements of rural communities. Russia’s leading satellite service provider, Global-Teleport, which will use its SkyEdge satellite hub station based near Moscow to operate the network. Gilat has been working closely with Global-Teleport to develop several major communications networks in Russia—Petah Tikva, Israel
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