headquarters mclean virginia u.s. area served north america key people daryl woodward ceo services wireline wireless connectivity options satellite connectivity ka and ku integrated network appliance prysm parent sagenet website spacenet.com spacenet inc. was a provider of vsat satellite based data network services as well as hybrid satellite terrestrial networks and network management services . spacenet was headquartered in the tysons corner cdp of unincorporated fairfax county virginia united states . 1 2 spacenet s primary business was providing vsat and hybrid terrestrial data network services to government and enterprise customers under the connexstar brand . spacenet s enterprise government vsat services are used for a wide range of applications such as primary broadband or narrowband networks disaster recovery backup networks and multicast file delivery . beginning in 2006 it partnered with cisco systems as the service provider for the cisco ip vsat satellite network wan module in the united states . it held around 25 % market share in the enterprise vsat marketplace according to the comsys 2005 industry study . as of 2007 spacenet equipment and services were in use at about 100 000 enterprise government residential and small office sites . history edit the company was founded in 1981 as southern pacific communications corporation spcc a sister company to sprint providing satellite links for voice connections . the company was acquired by gte in 1983 and grew into a worldwide satellite operator and services provider including launching the first north american ku band satellite spacenet 1 . it went through several acquisitions over the next 15 years absorbing at & t tridom and contel asc . gte spacenet was sold to general electric american communications in 1994 . 3 at & t sold the tridom corporation to spacenet in 1997 . 4 in 1998 ge americom sold spacenet s north american operations to vsat terminal manufacturer gilat satellite networks for 227.5 million in stock and spun the satellite assets off into ge americom which later became part of ses . 5 in march 2005 gilat wholly acquired starband the first two way consumer satellite isp in the united states and merged starband s operations into spacenet . 6 andreas georghiou became ceo of spacenet the following year in 2006 . 7 under georghiou spacenet acquired chantilly virginia based managed network services provider cicat networks in 2011 . 8 in 2012 president and chief operating officer glenn katz became ceo of spacenet replacing andreas georghiou . 9 following a loss of 2 million on 77 million in revenues in 2012 and faced with uncertainty about future spending by the u.s. department of defense gilat satellite networks sold spacenet inc. to tulsa oklahoma based managed network solutions provider sagenet for 16 million in 2013 . 10 11 12 13 sagenet ceo daryl woodard replaced glenn katz as ceo of the new combined company in 2014 with brad wise becoming president of spacenet . 13 14 spacenet was wholly absorbed into sagenet by the end of 2014 and became solely a brand name for sagenet s satellite services . 15 in 2015 sagenet unexpectedly failed to renew its lease on the 137 000 square foot office building in mclean that housed its washington dc area operations which it had inherited from spacenet forcing landlord matan cos. to send the 30.5 million loan to special servicing . 16 references edit tysons corner cdp virginia . united states census bureau . retrieved on may 7 2009 . contact us . spacenet . retrieved on may 12 2009 . macrae duncan ; 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