{"id":3247,"date":"2008-09-09T04:59:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T11:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2008-09-12T10:03:53","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T17:03:53","slug":"viasat-lands-50-million-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3247","title":{"rendered":"ViaSat Lands $50 Million Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s satellite products company <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.viasat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ViaSat Inc<\/a><\/strong>. has just signed a $50 million deal to &#8220;intall land-based &#8216;gateways&#8217; to connect European broadband subscribers to the Internet via satellite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The contract was awarded by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skylogic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skylogic<\/a><\/strong>, a subsidiary of <strong>Eutelsat Communications<\/strong> of Paris. ViaSat will install 10 broadband gateways in Europe linked to the KA-SAT satellite, which is scheduled to launch in the third quarter of 2010.. . . &#8220;This is the first network infrastructure award resulting from our transformational broadband initiative and leverages ground system economies of scale because it can be used for both high-capacity satellites &#8212; KA-SAT and ViaSat-1,&#8221; said <strong>Mark Dankberg<\/strong>, chairman and chief executive officer of ViaSat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, what Mark said. We&#8217;re hoping someone got a nice fat bonus for this one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdbj.com\/industry_article.asp?aID=25576072.8857533.1679392.1095058.17570203.488&amp;aID2=129175\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Business Journal<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s satellite products company ViaSat Inc. has just signed a $50 million deal to &#8220;intall land-based &#8216;gateways&#8217; to connect European broadband subscribers to the Internet via satellite.&#8221; The contract was awarded by Skylogic, a subsidiary of Eutelsat Communications of Paris. ViaSat will install 10 broadband gateways in Europe linked to the KA-SAT satellite, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}