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Hughes launches India's first broadband satellite VPN service
By siliconindia staff writer
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Wednesday, 02 June 2004, 19:30 IST
BANGALORE: Hughes Escorts Communications Limited (HECL), India's leading satellite service provider, today announced the launch of India's first Satellite-based Broadband VPN services on the DiRECWAY platform. The service, which delivers secure, true broadband connectivity across the country, is primarily targeted at connecting the remote sites of the enterprise, which include C&F Agents, sales offices, branch & remote sites as well as distributors.
DiRECWAY Broadband Satellite VPN is a uniquely positioned to offer connectivity at broadband speeds of 256Kbps and 512Kbps as defined by TRAI in their recent recommendations. With this innovative service, every site in the network will get access to broadband. DiRECWAY Broadband Satellite VPN has the advantage of reach and ability to provide a high quality of service without problems of the last mile. The service is extremely cost-effective, offering a series of tariff plans including the attractive fixed per site tariff plan. The service would be priced in the range of 
2,000 - 10,000 a month depending on the amount of data that would be transacted on the network.
Speaking at the service launch, Partho Banerjee, President & CEO, Hughes Escorts Communications Limited said "As Enterprises rely more on business data from the sales and distribution points, it has become imperative to connect them. We have had tremendous early acceptance for the DiRECWAY Broadband Satellite VPN with enterprises. The DiRECWAY Broadband Satellite VPN not only gives a reliable connectivity to the remote office, but also excels on performance and cost-effectiveness". The Fixed per site Tariff plan, as well as the ability to deliver true broadband to the remotest of locations, has made the service extremely attractive to enterprises."
Speaking on the service Amit Tripathi, Vice President Enterprise Services, "With the launch of the service, enterprises availing of this service can expect very high quality and high-speed connectivity at a nominal fixed monthly charge. The "Fair Access Policy" technology from Hughes Network Systems is the heart of providing a very high Quality of Service to customers. Moreover, Hughes's attractive pricing schemes helps customers clearly budget cash out-flows without surprises and simplifies the billing process for us as a service provider"
The DiRECWAY Broadband Satellite VPN service will be implemented on the DW 6000 platform in the customer premises and the DW 6000 is a very versatile platform that addresses the various needs of the enterprise in terms of routing, fire-wall, NATing, DHCP, network management.
It is a highly secure platform and employs a triple DES encryption scheme to protect the vital data of the enterprise. In addition to this, the service has been extensively tested with a variety of applications that are used by the Enterprise for its distribution points such as ERP, Office automation applications, specialized client-server application etc. In addition to the basic connectivity need, the DiRECWAY service aptly addresses the need of training of a vast distribution network with its unique multicasting feature.
2,000 - 10,000 a month depending on the amount of data that would be transacted on the network.
Speaking at the service launch, Partho Banerjee, President & CEO, Hughes Escorts Communications Limited said "As Enterprises rely more on business data from the sales and distribution points, it has become imperative to connect them. We have had tremendous early acceptance for the DiRECWAY Broadband Satellite VPN with enterprises. The DiRECWAY Broadband Satellite VPN not only gives a reliable connectivity to the remote office, but also excels on performance and cost-effectiveness". The Fixed per site Tariff plan, as well as the ability to deliver true broadband to the remotest of locations, has made the service extremely attractive to enterprises."
Speaking on the service Amit Tripathi, Vice President Enterprise Services, "With the launch of the service, enterprises availing of this service can expect very high quality and high-speed connectivity at a nominal fixed monthly charge. The "Fair Access Policy" technology from Hughes Network Systems is the heart of providing a very high Quality of Service to customers. Moreover, Hughes's attractive pricing schemes helps customers clearly budget cash out-flows without surprises and simplifies the billing process for us as a service provider"
The DiRECWAY Broadband Satellite VPN service will be implemented on the DW 6000 platform in the customer premises and the DW 6000 is a very versatile platform that addresses the various needs of the enterprise in terms of routing, fire-wall, NATing, DHCP, network management.
It is a highly secure platform and employs a triple DES encryption scheme to protect the vital data of the enterprise. In addition to this, the service has been extensively tested with a variety of applications that are used by the Enterprise for its distribution points such as ERP, Office automation applications, specialized client-server application etc. In addition to the basic connectivity need, the DiRECWAY service aptly addresses the need of training of a vast distribution network with its unique multicasting feature.