ViaSat Awarded
Contract for Nebraska Lottery Communications
(26 February 2004) ViaSat Inc
has been awarded a contract by INTRALOT Inc to install a LinkStar VSAT system
for secure lottery communication applications.
The
contract includes both LinkStar satellite communications networking equipment
and managed satellite services from the network operations facilities of
Immeon, ViaSat's VSAT services group for North America. The multi-year service
agreement includes engineering and design services, geographically redundant
uplinking services for alternative routing, LinkStar hub equipment, and
LinkStar remote terminals for 1200 sites across Nebraska. No financial terms
were announced.
In September, INTRALOT was selected as the new on-line
lottery gaming system and related services contractor for the State of Nebraska
Lottery, scheduled to begin operation on July 1, 2004. Under the terms of the
contract, INTRALOT will provide all hardware, software, equipment, and services
related to the lottery's on-line gaming activities.
LinkStar is a
hub-based VSAT system that provides two-way, broadband communications with more
efficiency and higher data rates than other satellite networks. Remote LinkStar
terminals receive data from a shared, 60 Mb/s broadcast from the access hub,
and can transmit back to the hub at up to 2.5 Mb/s. Dynamic bandwidth
allocation increases or decreases data rates on-the-fly for better service and
more efficient use of bandwidth. LinkStar hubs and remote terminals are
compatible with the digital video broadcast (DVB) international standard. Since
its introduction in September 2001, approximately 16,000 LinkStar DVB-RCS-ready
terminals have been shipped world-wide.
(source: ViaSat)
