Intelsat introduces Intelsat EpicNG satellite platform

Satellite operator Intelsat has introduced the Intelsat EpicNG satellite platform, a series of satellites based upon an open architecture design. Intelsat Epic will be deployed for mobile and fixed telecommunications, enterprise, mobility, video and government applications requiring broadband infrastructure across the major continents. Intelsat Epic will be integrated with Intelsat’s existing satellite fleet and global IntelsatOne terrestrial network. Combining Intelsat’s spectral rights in the C-, Ku- and Ka-bands with the technical advantages of high throughput technology, the Intelsat EpicNG platform will be an open architecture. Intelsat’s customers, the communications and media companies and government entities, will be able to use existing hardware and network topologies, and in many cases, define their own service characteristics. The Intelsat EpicNG is both backward and forward compliant and uses the throughput characteristics of spot beams and frequency reuse thereby enabling new service offerings.
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