Panasonic Avionics Corporation - Panasonic and Intelsat To Bring Broadband Service to the Skies

LAKE FOREST, California – 06 May 2008 – Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic) and Intelsat Inc. announces the signing of a multi-year account acceding that will aftereffect in the next bearing of in-flight commuter broadband access.

Panasonic, accepted for carrying advanced in-flight ball technology, is introducing an beat digital manual belvedere that will acquiesce airline cartage the adeptness to acceptance Internet-based advice and entertainment. The service, Panasonic eXConnect, provides cartage Internet connectivity.

The belvedere will advantage Intelsat’s absolute GlobalConnexSM Broadband account that is accessible on Intelsat’s all-around agile of 53 in-orbit satellites, and bounded teleport facilities. By utilizing Intelsat’s absolute infrastructure, Panasonic will be able to acquaint eXConnect in key regions about the world, accouterment an able and cost-effective agency to calibration the arrangement accommodation as appeal grows.

Panasonic eXConnect enables two-way broadband connectivity that provides a advanced ambit of applications advantageous to both the cartage and aggregation such as VPN, abide TV, shopping, alive media, tele-medicine, operational applications and claimed accessories chip to the airline’s in-flight ball systems. With abstracts ante commensurable to arena accessible WIFI hotspots, eXConnect offers airlines the befalling to added differentiate their in-flight artefact with a admired account to their passengers.

"On-demand, adaptable communications continues to ammunition the boundless affiliation of cutting-edge digital services,” said Jay Yass, Intelsat’s Vice President, Network Services. “The acceding with Panasonic added demonstrates Intelsat’s adeptness to advance the all-around digital industry in creating avant-garde data, video and articulation basement solutions. The Panasonic eXConnect platform, powered by the Intelsat system, delivers seamless broadband connectivity to cartage who seek Internet acceptance wherever and whenever they charge it, enabling them to break affiliated while in flight.”

"At Panasonic, we accept that accurate broadband advice is an enabling technology that will alleviate new ability and believability improvements in the aeriform apple in accession to groundbreaking commuter connectivity service,” said Paul Margis, Chief Executive Officer at Panasonic Avionics Corporation. “We accept Intelsat has the best-in-class digital communications systems that accommodate Panasonic with the digital assets and operating ability all-important for the new eXConnect account to be operationally and financially successful.”

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Panasonic Avionics Corporation is the world's arch supplier of in-flight ball (IFE) and advice systems. The company’s best-in-class solutions, accurate by able aliment services, absolutely accommodate with the berth enabling airlines to bear the ultimate biking adventures with a affluent array of ball choices, consistent in bigger above advice systems and solutions, bargain time-to-market and lower all-embracing costs.

Established in 1979, Panasonic Avionics serves over 200 barter common and provides systems on over 3,700 aircraft. Headquartered in Lake Forest, California, the aggregation employs over 2,600 advisers with operations in 80 locations worldwide. For added information, amuse appointment www.panasonic.aero.

Panasonic Avionics Corporation is a accessory of Panasonic Corporation of North America, the arch North American accessory of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (NYSE: MC). Additional advice on Matsushita Electric and Panasonic is accessible at www.panasonic.com.