Background check, Gilat Satellite Networks
Bipin Gautam
Hello all,
I personally smell espongae when anything is related to is "Isreal"
and "Technology". :)
Anyways, to people who missed a news, here are some reports from open sources:
# Israeli company to provide technology for internet connectivity in
remote Nepal
NepalNews.com : http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2009/feb/feb04/news10.php
An Israeli telecommunication company has been selected to provide
Nepal Telecom with SkyEdge broadband satellite communications networks
covering hundreds of sites in remote Nepal.
Issuing a press release Tuesday, Israel based Gilat Satellite Networks
Ltd announced that it has been selected by Telecommunications
Consultants India Ltd (TCIL)
...
According to the Israeli company, Nepal Telecom has also chosen
Gilat's SkyAbis cellular backhaul solution to extend the range of GSM
and CDMA services for Nepal's cellular operators.
...
Gilat is providing its advanced satellite communications and cellular
backhaul technology, enabling Nepal Telecom to extend the range of
cellular services and provide voice and broadband data connectivity
nationwide, improving the quality of life for citizens in the
country's remote locations."
------> Background, check!
( NOTE the PHRASES below in QUOTE MARKS , Just some background check
about it from open sources and I am not calming anything, you must
have made the right decisions! )
Ref:
* Intelligence Corps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Corps_(Israel)
* Spies in the Ointment: The Israeli Espionage of Global Communications
http://conspiracycentral.wordpress.com/2007/07/26/spies-in-the-ointment-the-israeli-espionage-of-global-communications/
# Gilat Satellite Networks:
Made more than half of the interactive VSATs (Very Small Aperture
satellite Terminals), or small satellite earth stations used in
communications networks sold in the world.
(06/13/2006 10:03 AM EDT)
ZICHRON YAACOV, Israel - Satellite maker Gilat Satellite Networks
said its technology will be incorporated into Cisco Systems' routers.
Gilat's "touts its SkyEdge technology" as allowing Cisco routers
to supply integrated services and the capacity to securely transmit
high-speed voice, video and data services. The move is designed to
provide an alternative communications path in parallel with
terrestrial communications." (Cisco to Cooperate with Gilat for
Satellite Backup) -
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=189400601
Like many others in the Israeli high tech field, Yoel Gat is a
graduate of the "Intelligence Corps", and a protege of Zohar
Zisappel. He entered the civilian job market in 1987 only because he
did not win against Eric Paneth in the stand-off for the position of
unit commander. Three years later, Paneth became one of the founders
of Orckit.
Gilat Satellite Networks subsidiary Gilat Communications, set up
in Israel under the management of Shlomo Tirosh, is increasingly
becoming a major factor in the Israel inland communications market,
and like its parent company, was highly successful in issuing on Wall
Street. Gilat grew from being a start-up to a 500-staff company, which
constantly shows profits (generally exceeding expectations), and never
ceases to innovate in satellite communications. Gat stands at the head
of the pyramid of a company with a hush-hush aura attached to it by a
team of "guys who left the Intelligence Corps and globally
conquered the satellite communications market."
"Leaving the unit together with Gat were" Amiram Levinberg,
his brother Joshua Levinberg, Shlomo Tirosh and Gideon Kaplan, and
together they set up Gilat Satellite Networks (GILTF)." (Yoel Gat -
Gilat Satellite Networks, The Hush-hush Guy by Efi Landau) -
http://web.archive.org/web/20041125013723/www.globes.co.il/DocsEn/did=381329.htm
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