Hughes Network Systems, Inc., the world’s leading provider of broadband satellite services, announced Monday it has won two new contracts valued at over $4 million from GTECH
Corporation.
Under the terms of the contracts, HNS is delivering and installing two new
DIRECWAY hubs, one located in Austin, TX, and the other in West Greenwich, RI,
bringing the total number of hubs supplied by HNS to six. The contracts also
call for 78 months of satellite bandwidth and engineering support.
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“Since we began working with HNS, satellite broadband has consistently
provided our customers with the reliability, security, and speed they require
for lottery transactions. We continue to rely on DIRECWAY to meet those
requirements,” stated Tom Caffrey, chief information officer at GTECH. “Its
performance and scalability allow us to offer a variety of services to our
customers now and in the future.”
Since December
2002, Hughs has supplied GTECH with approximately 32,000 remote terminals in
addition to the six hubs, said Estil Hoversten, senior vice president, North
American Division at Hughes Network Systems.
Hughes Network Systems, Inc. is a broadband satellite
network solutions company headquartered in Germantown, Maryland. It provides more than 750,000 systems
ordered or shipped to customers in 85 countries. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The
DIRECTV Group, Inc.
GTECH is
headquartered in West Greenwich. The global information technology company
with $1 billion in revenues employs 5,000 people in 44 countries, providing software,
networks, and professional services that power high-performance, transaction-
processing solutions. The Company’s core market is the lottery industry, with
a presence in financial services transaction processing.
