Gilat Enters Large Chinese Agricultural Market with Supply of hub and 300 SkyBlaster* 360 VSATs to Central Agriculture Broadcast and Television School -- CABTS --.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PETAH TIKVA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 2004 The distance education project was initiated during the SARS outbreak as a result of the need to quickly deliver health education to farmers in rural areas Gilat Satellite Networks Gilat Satellite Networks is a publicly-traded Israeli company (NASDAQ: GILT. TASE) Gilat designs, develops and markets satellite and hybrid networking products, services and solutions to operators in 85 countries. Ltd. (Nasdaq:GILTF) announced today that it will supply a hub and 300 Very Small Aperture Terminals (communications) Very Small Aperture Terminal - (VSAT) A kind of ground station used to contact a communications satellite such as INMARSAT. (VSATs) of its popular SkyBlaster* 360 broadband platform, to China's Central Agriculture Broadcast and Television School (CABTS). CABTS has been nominated by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture to run the National Farmers' Science and Technology Training Center and has established the China Distance Education Network. CABTS will use the VSAT (Very Small Aperture satellite Terminal) A small earth station for satellite transmission that handles up to 56 Kbits/sec of digital transmission. VSATs that handle the T1 data rate (up to 1.544 Mbits/sec) are called "TSATs. technology to provide interactive distance-learning applications to its municipal schools. The outbreak of SARS epidemic raised the need to quickly deliver health education to farmers throughout the massive regions of China in order to prevent the spread of the deadly disease. Gilat, which has considerable experience in implementing rural satellite-based VSAT networks in China, is providing CABTS with a network consisting of a hub and 300 VSAT terminals, of which part of the equipment will be donated, in order to expand the current Interactive Distance Learning (IDL (1) (Interface Definition Language) A language used to describe the interface to a routine or function. For example, objects in the CORBA distributed object environment are defined by an IDL, which describes the services performed by the object and how the data ) education network already in use by CABTS. CABTS was established in 1980. Since that time it has become one of the largest agriculture distance education schools in the world, with 38 provincial schools, 330 municipal schools, 2,408 county branch schools and 23,000 township classes, employing over 50,000 school staff. In 2000, CABTS implemented the China Distance Education Network using computers and two-way VSATs to link 54 Interactive Distance Learning stations to its provincial schools. The current initiative expands that project. Mr. Zeng Yi Chun, President of CABTS said, "This project will improve the level of agriculture distance education technology in China. It also will enable us to utilize our experience using two-way VSATs for interactive distance learning and to facilitate the dissemination of important information to the farmer population in rural China during times of crisis. It will play a significant role in promoting farmer education and training in rural China." Avi Shabtai, Gilat's General Sales Manager sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → for China, said, "This is not the first time Gilat equipment has been deployed in China for rural applications where the flow of information is crucial. Gilat's rural telephony equipment has been installed in thousands of villages in the rural regions of Xingjiang and Tibet enabling local residents to communicate with the Provinces' central locations. There is considerable opportunity to expand these services to other regions of the country, especially in the agricultural market." Continued Shabtai, "When the SARS epidemic broke out, the farmers in the rural areas of China became very vulnerable. Gilat is pleased to be assisting CABTS, an organization that has already demonstrated proven ability to deliver distance education to where it is really needed, in its efforts to deliver education to farmers using modern distance education technology." Gilat has several important VSAT networks already operating in China. The Company was the first to sign an over 1,000-site large-scale rural telephony network in Xingjiang Province as well as a 1,300-site network in Tibet. In addition the Company's VSAT networks support flood monitoring and control for the Water Resource Ministry and monitor seismological seis·mol·o·gy n. The geophysical science of earthquakes and the mechanical properties of the earth. seis movement that could lead to earthquakes for the Chinese Seismological Bureau. Additional networks have been deployed to deliver data applications, postal services, data-collection, and distance learning for a variety of Chinese companies Chinese owned companies can be defined as enterprises within mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and the Republic of China (Taiwan):
The SkyBlaster* 360 is an interactive satellite networking solution designed for IP applications. It combines industry-standard Digital Video Broadcast (DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) An international digital television (DTV) standard that is the European and Far Eastern counterpart of the North American ATSC standard. ) technology with Gilat's inbound satellite access technology to provide high-performance, cost-effective, two-way connectivity for a wide array of content delivery and other multicast and interactive applications, including high-quality video conferencing See videoconferencing. (communications) video conferencing - A discussion between two or more groups of people who are in different places but can see and hear each other using electronic communications. . The SkyBlaster* 360's broadband satellite platform provides content delivery speeds capable of scaling up to 52.5 Mbps, with a high-speed, always-on 153 kbps satellite return channel. About Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd., with its global subsidiaries Spacenet Inc., Gilat Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. and rStar Corporation (RSTRC), is a leading provider of telecommunications solutions based on Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite network technology - with nearly 400,000 VSATs shipped worldwide. Gilat, headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel, markets the Skystar Advantage(R), DialAw@y IP(TM), FaraWay far·a·way adj. 1. Very distant; remote. 2. Abstracted; dreamy: a faraway look. faraway Adjective 1. very distant 2. (TM), Skystar 360E(TM) and SkyBlaster* 360 VSAT products in more than 70 countries around the world. Gilat provides satellite-based, end-to-end enterprise networking The networking infrastructure in a large enterprise with multiple computer systems and networks of different types is extraordinarily complex. Due to the myriad of interfaces that are required, much of what goes on has little to do with the real data processing of the payroll and orders. and rural telephony solutions to customers across six continents Six Continents is a large retail PLC in UK which split into Six Continents Retail known as Mitchells and Butlers plc. The hotels and soft drinks business of Six Continents PLC is now known as InterContinental Hotels Group PLC. , and markets interactive broadband data services. Gilat is a joint venture partner with SES GLOBAL, and Alcatel Space and SkyBridge LP, subsidiaries of Alcatel, in SATLYNX, a provider of two-way satellite broadband services in Europe. Skystar Advantage, Skystar 360E, DialAw@y IP and FaraWay are trademarks or registered trademarks of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. or its subsidiaries. Visit Gilat at www.gilat.com. (*SkyBlaster is marketed in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. by StarBand Communications Inc. under its own brand name.) Certain statements made herein that are not historical are forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. The words "estimate", "project", "intend", "expect", "believe" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Gilat to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements that may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including, among others, changes in general economic and business conditions, inability to maintain market acceptance to Gilat's products, inability to timely develop and introduce new technologies, products and applications, rapid changes in the market for Gilat's products, loss of market share and pressure on prices resulting from competition, introduction of competing products by other companies, inability to manage growth and expansion, loss of key OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partners, inability to attract and retain qualified personnel, inability to protect the Company's proprietary technology and risks associated with Gilat's international operations Internal Operations (I.O., IO or I/O) is a fictional American Intelligence Agency in Wildstorm comics. It was originally called International Operations. I.O. first appeared in WildC.A.T.S. volume 1 #1 (August, 1992) and was created by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee. and its location in Israel. For additional information regarding these and other risks and uncertainties associated with Gilat's business, reference is made to Gilat's reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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