Hughes To Provide
Broadband Satellite System For Spanish Lottery
(8 July 2008) Hughes Network Systems,
LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite network solutions and
services, today announced that Sistemas Tecnicos de Loterias del Estado (STL)
has awarded its wholly owned subsidiary, HNS Ltd., a contract to provide a
geographically redundant HN System Network Operations Center (NOC), 2800
HN7700S broadband satellite routers, and support/maintenance services for five
years.
STL provides information technology and
telecommunications services to the Entidad Publico Empresarial Loterias y
Apuestas del Estado Espanol (LAE), the Spanish state lottery authority.
Handling over two million lottery transactions per year, STL is Spain's leading
gaming technology and telecommunications company.
"We issued an RFP in
order to find the most suitable communications solution for our lower volume,
more remote point-of-sales sites," said Alfonso Pedro Fernandez Garcia, STL's
Director of Communications and New Sales Channels. "We evaluated mobile
communications, DSL, and satellite IP technologies, and from 15 proposals
concluded that the best balance among Quality of Service (QoS) assurance, cost
per transaction, and coverage would be provided by a satellite IP solution. We
chose the HN System from Hughes because of the capabilities of the HN7700S
platform and our long-standing relationship with Hughes. As we are migrating
from X.25 to pure IP, we needed the latest, state-of-the-art equipment which
will enable us to provide better service quality and enable future broadband
applications."
"This agreement builds upon our successful 10 year
relationship with STL and is evidence of the strategic importance of the
lottery sector to Hughes and our leadership in serving it, following major
contracts with GTECH in the US and Camelot in the UK," said Luigi Pagni, vice
president, Sales and Marketing of Hughes Europe. "STL will now enjoy the
benefits of our latest HN System platform which is based on the world's most
widely deployed standard, IPoS/DVBS2 with ACM (adaptive coding modulation),
yielding higher throughputs and more efficient bandwidth
utilisation."
Installation of the HN System NOCs began in May and of the
remote satellite terminals shortly thereafter, with rollout scheduled to be
completed in the first quarter of 2009.
About Sistemas Tecnicos de
Loterias del Estado Sistemas Tecnicos de Loterias del Estado S.A. (STL),
headquartered in Madrid, was formed in 1988 to provide information technology
and telecommunciations services to the Entidad Publico Empresarial Loterias y
Apuestas del Estado Espanol, the Spanish state lottery authority. Over the
years, STL has maintained and updated its infrastructure and applications,
concentrating on updating equipment and on the design and development of new
solutions. Among STL's strategies is to design and develop management systems
certified by entities of recognised prestige. Thus, STL has created a Quality
Management System certified by AENOR, in accordance with the corresponding ISO
standard and has been awarded the World Lottery Association security
qualification.
About Hughes Network Systems
Hughes Network
Systems, LLC (HUGHES) is the global leader in providing broadband satellite
networks and services for large enterprises, governments, small businesses, and
consumers. HughesNet encompasses all broadband solutions and managed services
from Hughes, bridging the best of satellite and terrestrial technologies. Its
broadband satellite products are based on global standards approved by the TIA,
ETSI and ITU standards organisations, including IPoS/DVB-S2, RSM-A and GMR-1.
To date, Hughes has shipped more than 1.5 million systems to customers in over
100 countries.
Headquartered outside Washington, D.C., in Germantown,
Maryland, USA, Hughes maintains sales and support offices world-wide. Hughes is
a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Communications, Inc.
(source: Hughes
Network Systems)
