Hughes to provide satellite broadband facilities for remote POS locations for Spanish lottery

Telecomworldwire, July 8, 2008

TELECOMWORLDWIRE-8 July 2008-Hughes to provide satellite broadband facilities for remote POS locations for Spanish lottery(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com

Hughes Network Systems LLs (Hughes), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Communications Inc (Hasdaq:HUGH) and a supplier of network satellite sustems, announced on the 8 July that its Spanish subsidiary HNS Ltd has signed a contract with Sistemas Tecnicos de Loterias del Estado (STL), a company that provides IT and telecomms support to the Spanish state lottery organisation Entidad Publico Empresarial Loterias y Apuestas del Estado Espanol (LAE).

STL handles over two million lottery transactions per year for LAE, and issued a RFP to identify a solution that would allow them to extend their proposed IP-based network to more remote locations in a cost effective way. STL are in the process of transitioning from an X.25 system to an IP-based system.

Since the more remote locations are mainly low-volume points of sale (POS), the emphasis was on low cost solutions that required little infrastructure but ensured high availability.

HNS will provide STL with a geographically redundant HN Systems Network Operations Centre (NOC), 2800 HN7700S broadband satellite routers and support and maintenance services for five years. Installations began in May and the rollout of the system is expected to be in Q1 2009.

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