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Gilat operates Spacenet, which provides managed services in North America for businesses and governments through Connexstar and for consumers through its StarBand 2-way satellite terminals.
Proxim’s products will expand Gilat’s offering to include WiMAX and Wi-Fi Mesh for shared “last mile” connectivity.
“The markets which require broadband satellite communications often have a need for Broadband Wireless Access technology,” said Amiram Levinberg, Chairman and CEO of Gilat Satellite Networks. “Proxim’s WiMAX expertise and product offering, coupled with our strong presence in emerging markets, underscores the synergistic value of this cooperation”.
Gilat was founded in 1987 and has shipped over 670,000 Very Small Aperture Terminals (VSATs) to more than 85 countries across six continents. Gilat’s SkyEdge family provides VoIP services with prioritization for real-time traffic.
 Two-way satellite terminals using the Ku (14 GHz) band are getting new competition from satellite providers using the Ka (30 GHz) band with spot beams.
Those include WildBlue (right), which launched last year and is now available in many areas in the United States for as low as $50/month.
The Hughes Spaceway-3 spacecraft is expected to launch on an Ariane 5 this August 2007 (after a Sea Launch failure this January, and will also provide high-speed broadband access using the Ka band.
 Hughes currently has about 275,000 subscribers to its HughesNet Ku-band broadband services in North America (left), provided aboard satellites operated by Intelsat, PanAmSat, SES Americom and Satmex.
HughesNet is a new name for HNS’s DirecWay service. The DirecWay brand name is the property of DirecTV, which used to own Hughes, and Hughes was obliged to stop using the name last year.
Satellite broadband service revenues are expected to rise this year until 2011, says research firm Northern Sky Research. NSR estimates that almost 900, 36-MHz transponders will be needed to provision the global base of broadband VSAT sites and satellite Internet access subscribers by 2011 — a 40% increase from 2006. Government-sponsored broadband VSAT projects, notably in developing countries, form a large part of NSR’s forecast.
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