[Satellite TODAY 02-10-10] Gilat Satellite Networks has received new VSAT orders from Costa Rican national telecommunications operator Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), Gilat announced Feb. 9.
    The purchase builds on ICE’s initial order with Gilat in September 2008 for SkyEdge VSAT network services.
Gilat will deploy its SkyEdge 2 VSAT platforms to provide broadband services to approximately 1,000 new ICE sites and to ICE’s corporate sector subsidiary, Radiografica Costarricense, serving 500 enterprise customers. The SkyEdge network aims to deliver interactive data applications and services, such as videoconferencing, virtual private networks, VoIP services, IP multicasting and broadband Internet connectivity, to meet ICE’s mission-critical requirements.
    ICE also plans to expand its existing SkyEdge network to provide satellite backhaul, voice and data services to an additional 500 rural locations, meeting its universal service obligations to the Costa Rican government. The network also will provide satellite backhaul for wireless Internet access to those citizens.
    The values of the two orders were not disclosed.

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