Gilat Satcom Takes Fiber Operations to Ghana

Gilat Satcom, a leading provider of satellite and fiber-based connectivity services in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, on Tuesday announced that it is expanding its operations in Ghana to meet the growing demand for fast, reliable and secure broadband services from existing and prospective customers.

Gilat Satcom has been operational in Africa including Ghana for more than 15 years, providing both domestic and international satellite and fiber capacity to major operators and ISPs.

Gilat Satcom has upgraded its point-of-presence (PoP) located in the Rack Center Data Center in the capital of Accra and is now using redundant, terrestrial metro fiber to provide a 1-10Gbps service to existing and new customers.

In addition, the company offers to its customers’ value added services such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection and traffic management.

Gilat Satcom’s Ghanaian POP is directly connected to the West Africa Cable System (WACS) which has a landing station in Ghana and provides a reliable route for international traffic. Gilat Satcom is a shareholder in WIOCC, owners of WACS.

Dan Zjicek, Gilat Satcom’s CEO stated “We are investing heavily in both our fiber and satellite operations throughout Africa.  We are known for providing fully redundant, extremely stable broadband networks with excellent quality of service and compelling pricing. This upgrade of our infrastructure in Ghana will increase both capacity and service uptime”.

Gilat Satcom is a communication solutions provider that offers satellite and fiber-based connectivity solutions in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

With successful deployments in 50 countries, Gilat Satcom consistently delivers high-quality, cost-effective and efficient communications solutions to telcos, ISPs, governments, enterprise customers and international organizations. 



Gilat Satcom’s Village Island portfolio has also been deployed in Africa and provides all the components required to build extremely efficient and cost-effective self-contained networks in rural villages.

It has been specifically developed to provide the Internet, VoIP and Video over IP over an affordable private satellite network.

The company operates three international teleports in Europe and the Middle East, fourteen hubs/PoPs in Africa, two PoPs in Europe and one in the US.

In addition, Gilat Satcom is a shareholder in WIOCC, owners of the East African Submarine System (EASSy), and in the West Africa Cable System (WACS), with undersea fibre-optic cable systems connecting eastern and western Africa to the rest of the world.

Gilat Satcom also provides space segments over numerous satellites including Intelsat, Telesat, Hellas Sat, ABS, SES-NewSkies and others.