{"id":64090,"date":"2018-09-18T18:44:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T10:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/gsa-selects-hughes-to-expand-us-govt-satellite-education-network\/"},"modified":"2018-09-18T18:44:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T10:44:51","slug":"gsa-selects-hughes-to-expand-us-govt-satellite-education-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/gsa-selects-hughes-to-expand-us-govt-satellite-education-network\/","title":{"rendered":"GSA Selects Hughes to Expand US Govt Satellite Education Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)<\/strong> issued a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) contract to <strong>Hughes Network Systems<\/strong> for a fully managed, global satellite network to support distance learning programs for the Government Education and Training Network (GETN). The contract award is estimated at $15 million in total funding for up to five years.<\/p>\n<p>Under the contract, GETN will utilize HughesON managed broadband service at select sites, including wireline, wireless and satellite connectivity. As part of a managed service, the network solution will also enable agencies to utilize idle bandwidth from other GETN users.<br \/>\nGETN distributes its training content to a consortium of multiple agencies via HD interactive television (ITV: 1-way video, 2way audio) with audio interaction achieved through a secure terrestrial audio conferencing system. Hughes will expand the GETN turnkey satellite broadcast network to encompass more than 1,030 downlink sites with 1 or more classrooms, five uplink sites, 21 broadcast studios, and 44 international sites.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes\u2019 team on the contract will include longtime subcontractor <strong>Convergent Media Systems<\/strong> to support installation, maintenance and content scheduling for the network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) issued a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) contract to Hughes Network Systems for a fully managed, global satellite network to support distance learning programs for the Government Education and Training Network (GETN). The contract award is estimated at $15 million in total funding for up to five years. Under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64093,"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":[],"class_list":["post-64090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64090"}],"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=64090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}