{"id":81252,"date":"2013-04-02T20:56:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T12:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/hughes-african-development-bank-sign-managed-network-services-expansion-contract\/"},"modified":"2013-04-02T20:56:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T12:56:15","slug":"hughes-african-development-bank-sign-managed-network-services-expansion-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/hughes-african-development-bank-sign-managed-network-services-expansion-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Hughes, African Development Bank Sign Managed Network Services Expansion Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 04-02-13] The <b>African Development Bank (AfDB)<\/b> has signed a contract with <b>Hughes Network Systems<\/b> to expand managed satellite services for the bank and to provide MPLS connectivity in the region. The AfDB has been a Hughes managed services customer since 2008. It employs a primary communications network of broadband satellite terminals installed in 32 AfDB field offices throughout Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Under the expansion contract, Hughes will provide MPLS circuits at four AfDB sites, with backhaul (STM1) services to its Temporary Relocation Agency in Tunis, Tunisia from a teleport in Germany. Major applications include SAP, VoIP, video conferencing and high-speed Internet access.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; AfDB selected Hughes for its capability to meet the bank\u2019s requirements for network such as: high availability; uniform SLA and QoS offerings; a single vendor to provide full turnkey managed services and ongoing system engineering, installation and field maintenance; monthly reporting, statistics and quarterly reviews on usage and performance; and 24\/7 multi-lingual help desk.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 04-02-13] The African Development Bank (AfDB) has signed a contract with Hughes Network Systems to expand managed satellite services for the bank and to provide MPLS connectivity in the region. The AfDB has been a Hughes managed services customer since 2008. It employs a primary communications network of broadband satellite terminals installed in [&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":[],"class_list":["post-81252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81252"}],"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=81252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}