SSE Telecom Inc. [SSET] of Fremont, Calif., and Harmonic Data Systems Ltd. (HDS) have agreed that SSE will provide its VSAT earth stations to HDS’s customers for two-way Internet access.

The companies said HDS will provide Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) and Internet Protocol (IP) technology that will be built into the SSE VSATs, and each of them will cross- market the other’s products.

“HDS’s DVB IP technology is a natural fit for our iP3 satellite Internet gateway platform, as it is readily adaptable to our PCI bus/Linux architecture,” said Lee Blachowicz, president and CEO of SSE. “It will allow us to rapidly roll out very high speed, high quality IP transport solutions, which accommodate DVB video and legacy data applications in the same transport stream.”

Harmonic Data Systems supplies Internet and related data systems for satellite, cable TV and wireless cable networks. It is headquartered in Tel Aviv, with its U.S. office in San Diego, and is a subsidiary of Harmonic Inc. [HLIT] of Sunnyvale, Calif., a developer and supplier of broadband systems.