Boeing 702MP Selected for First Intelsat EpicNG Satellite

Intelsat S.A., the world's leading provider of satellite services, hasselected a Boeing (NYSE: BA) 702MP platform for its Intelsat 29e satellite,the first within the recently announced Intelsat Epic^NG high-performancesystem.“Our customers require an advanced architecture specially designed to meettheir fixed and mobile communications needs,” said Intelsat SVP and chieftechnical officer Thierry Guillemin. “With higher throughput, strong economicsand a degree of control that meets our customers' business requirements,Intelsat Epic^NG caters to this environment. Its architecture combinesmulti-band frequency reuse with the benefits of backward and forwardcompatibility, resulting in a high-performance solution not previouslyavailable in the commercial satellite sector. We selected Boeing because theywere able to meet this challenge.”