{"id":5197,"date":"2025-06-09T10:34:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/gilat-secures-40-million-contract-for-virtualized-skyedge-iv-platform\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T10:34:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:34:23","slug":"gilat-secures-40-million-contract-for-virtualized-skyedge-iv-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/gilat-secures-40-million-contract-for-virtualized-skyedge-iv-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilat Secures $40 Million Contract for Virtualized SkyEdge IV Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1749453678534_638850504776064809.png\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr fr-dib\" width=\"711\" height=\"376\" alt=\"Gilat Secures $40 Million Contract for Virtualized SkyEdge IV Platform\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1749453678534_638850504776064809.png\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1749453678534_638850504776064809.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"711\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"376\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;\">Gilat Satellite Networks<\/strong>, announced that it has received a $40 million contract for its virtualized SkyEdge IV platform, expected to be delivered over the next 24 months. Designed with a cloud-native architecture and ready for future 5G-NTN (Non-Terrestrial Network) standards, the platform marks a major step forward in the transformation of satellite ground networks, enabling satellite operators and service providers to meet the evolving demands of modern connectivity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This milestone award demonstrates the successful evolution strategy of Gilat\u2019s SkyEdge IV platform, now virtualized over cloud infrastructure and utilizing the DIFI digital interface open standard. The multi-service, fully virtualized SkyEdge IV software platform delivers unprecedented adaptability, scalability, and efficiency, enabling satellite operators to deploy the platform on standard cloud-based infrastructure and thereby accelerate the delivery of multi-orbit next-generation services.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget-layout related-content-also-read-box my-3\">\n<h4 class=\"mb-0\">Also Read: Gilat Satellite Networks: Pioneering End-to-End Satellite Connectivity Capabilities<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This deployment also marks a significant step in the SkyEdge IV evolution plan for 5G NTN, further solidifying Gilat\u2019s move towards ground segment digital transformation. This evolution promises standard ubiquitous connectivity across terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks, a multi-vendor open ecosystem for the satcom industry, and new revenue streams from new use cases.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are excited to support new software-defined satellites, delivering a virtualized next-generation ground segment architecture\u201d, said <strong>Ron Levin<\/strong><strong>, President Commercial Division at Gilat<\/strong>. \u201cThis puts Gilat on an accelerated R&amp;D development path and rapid evolution toward a 5G-NTN standard platform and introduction of new services\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gilat Satellite Networks, announced that it has received a $40 million contract for its virtualized SkyEdge IV platform, expected to be delivered over the next 24 months. Designed with a cloud-native architecture and ready for future 5G-NTN (Non-Terrestrial Network) standards, the platform marks a major step forward in the transformation of satellite ground networks, enabling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50,26,42,20],"class_list":["post-5197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-5g","tag-ground","tag-satcom","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}