Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: GILTF) is a leading provider of telecommunications solutions based on Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite network technology. Gilat was established in 1987. With its international subsidiaries, Gilat provides satellite based networking and rural telephony solutions to customers in more than 70 countries and also markets interactive broadband data services to residential and small office/home office (SOHO) customers. Gilat major task is development of satellite networking solutions that would increase VSAT bundled possibilities. Unique advanced technologies in the field of providing access to satellite capacity, integral IP-acceleration, QoS ensuring and adaptation to the realities of the removed areas place Gilat far beyond all of its satellite competition in the market of telecommunication technologies. In the COMSYS 2001 Report the "Skystar Advantage" system was called "perhaps the best VSAT ever made". The same report gave Gilat's DialAw@y IP VSAT, bundling telephony and Internet services, 78.6% of the Star DAMA market while putting the company's FaraWay VSAT for corporate communications, ahead in the Mesh DAMA market.

At the moment several networks based on FaraWay and Skystar Advantage Gilat's products are deployed in Russia. ROSH Group Companies participated in promotion of Gilat products and solutions on the territory of Russia providing marketing and preselling support and participating in introduction and service support.

Satellite networking has many important advantages over its terrestrial analogs. For example, no geographic limitation, unmatched reliability, rapid deployment, simultaneous data and voice traffic, multiple-address transmission, high bandwidth and scalability.

  Solutions for IP-based corporate networks
The Skystar Advantage VSAT network has changed the way large enterprises and governments do business - with reliable and efficient private VSAT networks for data, multimedia and voice applivations. The Skystar Advantage expandable system integrates multiple applications into a single platform with multicast capabilities. The Skystar 360E VSAT is Gilat's latest VSAT product. Designed for SOHOs, SMEs and subnetworks operators, it enables two-way Internet and Intranet access and multicasting applications. With DVB standards and extensive IP capabilities, the SkyStar 360E allows for feedback and access to resources for enterprises or smaller user groups.

  Complex solutions for providing Bundled Telephony and Internet services.
The DialAw@y IP VSAT converges Gilat's field-proven VSAT solutions for voice transmission and always-on high-speed Internet access. The result: advanced, reliable and easy deployed telecommunications for service providers. The DialAw@y IP is the best solution for universal Telephony and Internet services. The FaraWay VSAT system makes toll-quality voice and trunks that are a perfect transmission media from PSTN to remote switching centers. It employs a full-mesh DAMA network architecture for both voice and data enabling this product for governmental, corporate and military networks and also for networks of aerial transport supervision.
  Broadband IP solution
The SkyBlaster 360 VSAT is a satellite networking solution that provides broadband two-way IP broadcasting, two-way high-speed Internet access and other applications.