Gilat Satellite Networks won a key contract in Latin America in terms of boosting education resources to classrooms in Mexico. The company announced March 14 that a consortium of leading Mexican technology firms selected Gilat to provide a network of nearly 7,000 Skyedge VSATs for use in more than 16,000 Mexican public-school classrooms. The deployment of the network hub and terminals is currently underway.

Gilat combined its equipment and technical support services to provide a satellite solution to monitor the operation and usage of the Mexican Ministry of Education’s (SEP) Enciclomedia program, and also provide broadband Internet access. The Mexican government considers Enciclomedia to be an important education project and expects it to eventually reach more than 140,000 classrooms.