Boeing 702MP Selected for First Intelsat EpicNG Satellite

Intelsat S.A., the world's leading provider of satellite services, has selected a Boeing

702MP platform for its Intelsat 29e satellite, the first within the recently announced Intelsat Epic^NG high-performance system. “Our customers require an advanced architecture specially designed to meet their fixed and mobile communications needs,” said Intelsat SVP and chief technical officer Thierry Guillemin. “With higher throughput, strong economics and a degree of control that meets our customers' business requirements, Intelsat Epic^NG caters to this environment. Its architecture combines multi-band frequency reuse with the benefits of backward and forward compatibility, resulting in a high-performance solution not previously available in the commercial satellite sector. We selected Boeing because they were able to meet this challenge.”