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SANTA CLARA, CA -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced that Hughes Network Systems, the world's leading broadband by satellite provider, has selected Sun Microsystems to power its new SPACEWAY satellite network. As part of the five-year multimillion agreement, Sun will supply all of the core UNIX®-based systems for the ground infrastructure of the program. ``We chose Sun to provide our UNIX-based infrastructure because of the scalability and reliability of its environment,'' said Mike Cook, vice president and general manager of SPACEWAY. ``Sun's infrastructure offering will help support SPACEWAY's peer-to-peer architecture and delivery of high-speed, bandwidth on demand services to North American enterprises and consumers.'' Sun systems power numerous satellite systems worldwide, including HNS and the TRW Satellite Control System being developed for the U.S. Air Force Space Command. ``Hughes Network Systems has been a Sun customer for over five years, and their renewed commitment to using Sun technology is evidence of the strength of our products and services,'' said Doug Kaewert, vice president, Sun Developer Network group at Sun Microsystems, Inc. ``The SPACEWAY satellite program will help enable next-generation broadband applications to go to market faster and leverage our JXTA architecture for new P2P solutions.'' The number one selling vendor of UNIX-based servers in the world, Sun will provide its Sun Fire(TM) 15K servers, SunFire 6800 Midframe servers, Sun Fire 280R servers, Sun StorEdge(TM) T3 arrays, the Solaris(TM) 8 Operating Environment and Forte(TM) for Java(TM) software. The Sun solution for Hughes SPACEWAY includes technology consulting expertise from Sun Professional Services and learning solutions from Sun Educational Services that together will help facilitate faster deployment and enhance overall quality. For more information visit www.sun.com or www.hughesalliance.com