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IN THE LIBRARY.
I DROPPED BY ON
THURSDAY, BUT SHE COULDN'T COME
Gilat Satellite Networks
has become a key player
in the satellite
communications
industry.
BECAUSE SHE WAS BUSY IN THE ACTIVITIES
ROOM WORKING ON HER NEW EXERCISE
PLAN.
I INVITED MYSELF TO LUNCH WITH
HER ON FRIDAY, AND THE FOOD WAS
TERRIFIC. I TOLD MOM TO CALL MY
BROTHER AND LET HIM KNOW HOW
SHE LIKES HER NEW HOME AT
THE HEATHERWOOD.
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Special to The Jewish News
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t doesn't take much guesswork
to realize how rapidly Gilat
Satellite Networks Ltd. is
expanding. Drive down a half-
finished road in the Kiryat Aryeh
area of Petah Tikva and you soon get
the picture. There, amid all the rub-
ble and dust of a developing area,
stand two huge and luxurious build-
ings, one blue, one green, which
together cost Gilat some $20 mil-
lion.
While one block is already inhab-
ited, staff members are already
chomping at the bit to move into the
other, which is nearing completion.
Founded in 1987, Gilat, which
designs, manufactures, markets and
supports Very Small Aperture
Terminal (VSAT) satellite earth sta-
tions and related hub equipment and
software, has managed in less than a
decade to become a key player in the
satellite communications industry.
In 1992, sales were $5.5 million.
By 1996, they reached $75 million.
Estimates for 1997 suggest that sales
will reach an all-time high of $90-
$100 million, while cash reserves
have now reached $100, million;
making Gilat richer than ever.
Gilat, which is traded on the
Nasdaq over-the-counter stock
exchange and employs 400 people,
was set up by five friends.
During the first five years the
company developed two main prod-
ucts, both of which are geared
towards customers who have a large
number of remote sites. The
OneWay VSAT is a data broadcast
receiver which can be used for news
distribution and paging, while the
TwoWay VSAT is used by banks,
retailers, gas stations, etc., and has a
number of applications including
inventory control, credit-card autho-
rization, lottery transactions and pre-
scription adjudication. Gilat's secret
weapon was cost. It outsourced pro-
duction of its RF equipment to
Nicky Blackburn is a writer for the
Jerusalem Post Foreign Service.