FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Orbita Commissions POP in Germany

Deployment supports VSATs in the Middle East

RESTON – January 5, 2004 – The Orbita Group announced today that its new POP at Intelsat’s teleport facilities in Fuchsstadt, Germany have been commissioned to support ILD operations in the Middle East. Orbita’s POP is connected to Intelsat’s 18m and two 32m earth stations which provide it with a reach from L.America and eastern N.America, to Europe, Africa and the M. East.

Fig. 1.-  Intelsat 901 at 342 East Coverage Map

The current uplink on I-901 connects the VSATs on the M. East to redundant Tier 1 Internet backhauls to the US, providing end to end connectivity to Orbita’s POPs in NYC and Miami.

Orbita is a licensed ILD carrier with licensed operations in L.America and Asia. Orbita provides support functions for emerging carriers, such as outsourced billing, traffic and routing management, global termination, VoIP operations and OSS.