“This enhanced COTM platform brings command-and-control capabilities to vehicles far from fixed communications centers,” said Chris Tully, Vice-president of Sales, Marketing and BD at Intelsat General Corporation. “Our Intelsat Epic satellites are ideally suited to delivering the high throughput necessary to share information between mobile forces across the battlefield and with distant commanders.”The greater throughput will also allow for time sensitive targeting and a common operational picture to be seamlessly shared between units that are much more geographically dispersed across the battlefield. In addition, the high performance of the Epic satellites allows two small remote terminals to communicate directly with each other in a mesh configuration. This eliminates the need for a double-hop with a larger hub antenna in the middle. IGC recently closed another services agreement on our second Intelsat Epic satellite, IS-33e, that includes multiple beams/areas and over 100 MHz of capacity. The throughput and efficiency gains for multiple applications – maritime, airborne and land – are being monitored closely to capture and provide relevant data for other interested users. As with IS-29e, IGC strongly believes that actual performance will exceed current analysis. This rapid transition to a new level of COTM is possible because of existing Ku-band antenna/modem infrastructure already in place on government space networks. Being able to use existing infrastructure has clear benefits for the DoD – from fiscal, operational and information assurance (IA) standpoints. It will also make it easier for DoD users to leverage the capabilities of the IntelsatOne Flex managed service. This is the kind of technological innovation that supports rapid decision-making and continued information dominance for the DoD. Intelsat Epic continues to innovate with each satellite launch, and will put the latest in SATCOM technology into orbit for government use.
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