Fwd: ComSoc V1 #53

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Gang,

FYI.

Paul, W4RI

IEEE Communications Society- Washington 
Chapter
Date 19 April  2001 (Thursday)
Dinner 6:00-7:00 pm, Talk 7:00-8:00
Place Pook's Hill Marriott off the beltway at Wisconsin 
Ave

This will be our first dinner meeting, many members 
have asked we meet in the evening rather than 
afternoon, so we will try it. Please come and bring a 
friend. 

Topic: StarBand=99 Two-Way Satellite Internet to 
the Home

Starband=99 is the first offering of affordable two-way 
satellite Internat service to the home or small business.  
The 2ft by 3ft VSAT will also carry DISH TV service.  It is 
estimated that this service can provide 500 Mb 
download and 150 Mb upload service.  For many areas 
of the US this is will be the only wide band service 
available, costing only $60/month.

The talk will focus on the communications engineering 
and network design of the system-- discussing the 
important subjects load handling, IP design, dynamic 
bandwidth allocation, and security aspects of the system.

Speaker: Yossi Gal, Vice President of Engineering 
and Chief Engineer
StarBand Communications Inc.

Yossi Gal serves as StarBand=92s Vice President of 
Engineering and Chief Engineer.  In this capacity he is 
responsible to integrate core satellite technologies with 
sophisticated networking technologies into a high-
performance reliable network, and to develop additional 
system components as required.

Gal has been with Gilat Satellite Networks since 
February 1995, and served as Director of Networking 
Software. In this capacity he was in charge of 
developing Gilat=92s high-speed systems: SkySurfer and 
SkyBlaster.  Since 1999, Gal served as Director of 
Technical Marketing for Broadband Products in 
Spacenet, Inc. and led the technical side of the inception 
of Gilat-To-Home, now StarBand.

Prior to joining Gilat, Gal led development teams in 
Israeli Data Communications companies.

Gal earned his B.Sc. in Computers Engineering (Cum 
Laude) from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 
in Haifa, and his MBA from Tel-Aviv University.

Don Rickerson    don@skyhelp.net
President, Personal Satellite Network, Inc.
10317 Amberleigh CT
Manassas, VA 20110-6616
703-330-9028 voice       703-995-0771 fax