Gilat Announces Availability of its Flagship VSAT, Achieving Half a Gigabit of Concurrent Speeds

June 18, 2020

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. announces the availability of its flagship VSAT, Capricorn PLUS, which achieves half a gigabit of concurrent speeds. The VSAT attains highest MF-TDMA channel rate of 100Mbps over a 30Msps channel enabling full satellite network resource utilization under any link conditions and service needs.

Gilat’s high-speed VSAT, Capricorn PLUS, is future-ready, built with support for Multi Access Edge Computing (MEC) infrastructure – enabling next generation edge services, such as video caching and IoT gateways. In addition, Capricorn PLUS was designed to serve with maximum efficiency data intensive applications such as 5G backhauling, maritime and enterprise.

“Gilat is excited to release its outstanding VSAT, Capricorn PLUS, achieving speeds of 400/100Mbps while maintaining the integrity of high priority flows, such as cellular signaling, even in the most congested scenarios, to provide our customers with the required performance for the most demanding applications,” said Alik Shimelmits, Chief Technology & Product Officer at Gilat. “Capricorn PLUS enables support of a wide variety of applications requiring a range of different speed terminals, all sharing the same inbound network infrastructure.”