{"id":84884,"date":"2011-05-08T23:14:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/gilat-ipstar-awarded-extensive-five-year-support-deals-from-australias-nbn\/"},"modified":"2011-05-08T23:14:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:14:40","slug":"gilat-ipstar-awarded-extensive-five-year-support-deals-from-australias-nbn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/gilat-ipstar-awarded-extensive-five-year-support-deals-from-australias-nbn\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilat, IPStar Awarded Extensive Five-Year Support Deals from Australia\u2019s NBN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-08-11] <b>Gilat Satellite Networks<\/b> was contracted by <b>Optus Networks<\/b> to provide, install, operate and maintain a SkyEdge 2 VSAT network for the Australian <b>National Broadband Network Co.<\/b>\u2019s (NBN) interim satellite service, Gilat announced May 6.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The deal, which will see Gilat\u2019s network serve up to 48,000 Australian subscribers, represents a potential value of up to $120 million in five years. Gilat will provide an initial network of 11 SkyEdge 2 hubs and 20,000 SkyEdge 2 VSATs expected to be deployed within up to three years. The agreement stipulates a possible expansion of the network to include hubs and up to 48,000 VSATs.<br \/>\nGilat said its hubs would be commissioned and VSAT service would commence operation in 2011. The satellite network will utilize Optus\u2019 existing Ku capacity and IPStar\u2019s multi-spotbeam capacity available over Australia. <b>IPStar Australia <\/b>announced May 6 that it signed a separate contract with NBN valued at $100 million for a period of five years with an option to extend for its services.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Australian government has set a goal to provide next-generation network coverage to all of Australia, and satellite is a natural fit for complementing fiber and wireless technologies to achieve this,\u201d Gilat CEO and Chairman Amiram Levinberg said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-08-11] Gilat Satellite Networks was contracted by Optus Networks to provide, install, operate and maintain a SkyEdge 2 VSAT network for the Australian National Broadband Network Co.\u2019s (NBN) interim satellite service, Gilat announced May 6. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The deal, which will see Gilat\u2019s network serve up to 48,000 Australian subscribers, represents a potential value of up [&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-84884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84884"}],"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=84884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}