By Computerworld Philippines Staff
June 29, 2010

We are I.T. Philippines, Inc. (WIT), a satellite service provider based in the Philippines, claims it has successfully provided satellite services for the 79% of the Municipal and Provincial Canvassing Centers in the Philippines’ 1st Automated Elections.

BGAN (Broadband Global Area Network) was primarily used to transmit data from remote polling centers, while VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) was used in municipal and provincial canvassing centers. In some instances, BGANs were used to transmit data from polling centers located in urban areas due to reliability challenges of the Telcos.

We are I.T. Philippines, Inc. (WIT) was contracted by Smartmatic TIM to provide turnkey satellite connectivity services after a lengthy international tender process. More than 600 VSAT and 5000 BGAN services were used by the Commission on Election (COMELEC) to render secure and reliable connectivity services, thus making this the biggest single deployment of satellite services in the world.

“The service provided by WIT was crucial at the Canvassing level bringing electoral data from polling centers to 680 places using VSATs and others 681 Canvassing centers using BGANs. Additional to this, 4,819 polling centers where assigned BGANs as the transmission media. These figures represented 79% of the Canvassing Centers, a percentage that shows the importance of WIT in the success of the project,” said Angel Diaz, Telecoms Manager of Smartmatic TIM.

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