Gilat adds disaster recovery functionality to SkyEdge II VSAT platform

In light of the growing number and severity of disasters worldwide, Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. took the precaution of adding advanced Dual IPsec disaster recovery functionality to its SkyEdge II VSAT product.

An ‘embedded Dual IPsec’ functionality -unique to Gilat systems- enables simultaneous processing over two ‘end-to-end’ IPsec tunnels. Dual IPsec-capable VSAT platforms will automatically switch transaction data to disaster recovery sites without needing to purchase and install external equipment.

The timely arrival of critical information is important to many thousands of networked terminals, ATM banks, retailers, and other distributed enterprises. High service availability ensures the accuracy and responsiveness of the flow of information in today's online and real time computing environments. It is important to ensure that a communications network can quickly recover and resume operations after a failure in communications caused by anything up to a natural disaster.

Gilat's IPsec functionality gives its SkyEdge II VSAT product an affordable and effective disaster recovery option that takes full advantage of the strengths of satellite communications systems.