Spacenet Awarded 2011 NGN Leadership Award from NGN Magazine

--Prysm Pro Honored for Outstanding Innovation--

MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), has named the Prysm Pro as a recipient of the 2011 NGN Leadership Award presented by its publication, NGN Magazine.

“The Prysm Pro has become a real differentiator for Spacenet, especially to our large enterprise customers,” said Spacenet CEO Andreas Georghiou. “The combination of our newly acquired CICAT divisions’ networking partnerships throughout the country, and the Prysm Pros’ ability to integrate the best WAN option at each location, allows us to reduce costs and operational issues while also enabling complete network redundancy and risk mitigation. This new functionality will substantially increase our addressable market.”

Prysm Pro is a PCI (Payment Card Industry) Data Security Standard compliant device that provides integrated support for managed network services and a wide range of corporate applications including data acceleration, retail applications/POS hardware interfaces and multimedia content delivery such as digital media. It has the flexibility to address all site-level networking and application requirements on a single device. In addition, Prysm Pro supports advanced applications over wireline, wireless or satellite networks and provides a seamless solution for automatic network failover in the case of a primary network outage.

The Second Annual NGN Leadership Award has recognized the growth, evolution and distinction between the applications and services designed for next generation networks and the enabling technologies that make them possible. Spacenet has been recognized in the Network Technology category this year.

“TMC is once again pleased to recognize Spacenet for their exceptional work in advancing next generation network services and technologies. Prysm Pro has proven its exceptional value and its innovation has contributed to the transformation of the industry,” stated Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. “Congratulations to the entire team at Spacenet and I look forward to more innovations in the coming years.”

The 2011 NGN Leadership Award winners can be found in the May/June 2011 issue of NGN magazine.

For more information, please visit www.tmcnet.com.

About Spacenet®

Founded in 1981, Spacenet Inc. designs, develops, and manages wireline and wireless broadband network solutions for US based business, industrial and government customers, as well as residential users through its StarBand product line. Spacenet has a longstanding tradition of industry leadership and innovation, and today has more than 100,000 operational network endpoints for customers including many Fortune 500 companies and major government agencies. Spacenet offers a complete product and services portfolio for applications ranging from primary communications for corporate applications and secure data transfer, to hot stand-by solutions for continuity of operations and network backup, or field deployable solutions for disaster recovery and emergency management. Spacenet Integrated Government Solutions, a division of Spacenet Inc., develops networks and communications solutions for agencies such as the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, the Intelligence community and other government agencies requiring highly secure, flexible solutions. Spacenet is based in McLean, Virginia, and operates its own end-to-end services infrastructure including network management, field services and teleport facilities in McLean, VA; Atlanta, Georgia; and Chicago, Illinois. Visit Spacenet at http://www.spacenet.com/.

About NGN magazine

NGN magazine is the resource for communications service providers and the supporting ecosystem of equipment providers, system integrators, and solutions developers as they make the transition to next generation networks.

NGN magazine will cover how these new technologies will integrate with legacy systems, and how they will improve service, deliver new applications, and offer ROI to carriers. TMC continues to provide leading-edge information as this market develops. NGN represents the evolution of IMS Magazine. Launched in January 2009, NGN encompasses a wider swath of the important trends and newsmakers that are shaping the networks of the future.

For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

CONTACT:

Spacenet:
Jon Douglas
703-848-1221
Jon.douglas@spacenet.com
or
TMC:
Jan Pierret
Marketing Manager
203-852-6800, ext. 228
jpierret@tmcnet.com

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