Gilat To Provide VSAT Network To Mexican School Initiative
December 6, 2006

Services Print This Page Email This Page Archives Related Stories NBA Renews, Expands International Distribution Agreement With Intelsat Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. Files For Public Offering Of Its Ordinary Shares Axesat To Deploy Gilat SkyEdge System In Colombia Frost & Sullivan: Latin American Demand For Commercial Satellite Communications Growing Ariane Places WildBlue, SES Americom Satellites In Orbit

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has been selected by Alef Soluciones Integrales and Corporative Lanix to provide a Skyedge VSAT network to more than 7,700 Mexican public-school classrooms, Gilat announced Dec. 4.

Deployment of the network hub and 4,400 terminals has begun in the middle-school phase of the Mexican Ministry of Education's computer-based Enciclomedia program, which integrates federal education resources such as textbooks, digital content and virtual activities to enhance students' classroom experience.

Earlier this year, Gilat provided more than 15,000 Skyedge VSATs and services to leading Mexican technology firms to support the primary-school phase of the program. Following the current deployment, the number of classrooms connected via Skyedge will total more than 41,000 primary- and middle-school venues. The Mexican government plans to expand the program to about 182,000 classrooms.