Misc Internet & Live TV at 35,000 Ft

[Hawkwind]

Some of you may find this interesting. BBC Article and video on the product I have been working on for the past few years. The Sport 24 product is licensed from IMG and has been a great success. Getting to the point where passengers are asking if they will have certain games/events on their flights before they book.

 

[Scouse]

Cool m8.

Have you fitted a shitload of those antennae to private jets already?

 

[Scouse]

BTW - this should be in the front room. It's cool.

 

[Hawkwind]

We have contracts to fit the Antenna on around 4000 commercial and VIP aircraft. In Europe we have already fitted them to aircraft with Lufthansa, SAS, Aer Lingus, Transaero, KLM, Air France and British Airways.

 

[TdC]

Awesome work @Hawkwind! next time I fly I could be fapping to brazillian fart porn THANKS TO YOU

 

[Moriath]

Bah how come my last trip to dusseldorf didn't seem any different

 

[Hawkwind]

only on Lufthansa's long range fleet

 

[DaGaffer]

Some of you may find this interesting. BBC Article and video on the product I have been working on for the past few years. The Sport 24 product is licensed from IMG and has been a great success. Getting to the point where passengers are asking if they will have certain games/events on their flights before they book.

So where's our cut for all the fantastic technical advice we gave you? Eh? Eh?

Looks very cool btw

 

[- English -]

only on Lufthansa's long range fleet

Who is your service provider?

 

[Hawkwind]

We (Panasonic Avionics) run the TV service. The channels are licensed from the rights owner to us and we sell sell to all the airline customers. IMG is the sports channel provider. Internet service is via multiple ISP's with Lufthansa choosing T-Mobile, SAS use Snowfall and Turkish use Turk Telekom. GSM phone and data service is via Aeromobile which is now owned by Panasonic.

 

[- English -]

So do Panasonic have their own satellites now? or are they leasing from someone like ViaSat? What kind of solution are they using? KU, KA Band?

Just interested in hearing more on how they do it. I work in the industry so rather interesting

 

[Draylor]

Oh god, dont go there.

The dullest meetings I've ever experienced involved what felt like endless discussions on the virtues of various satellite bands. It was 10ish years ago, but the mention of such things still makes me shiver

 

[Hawkwind]

So do Panasonic have their own satellites now? or are they leasing from someone like ViaSat? What kind of solution are they using? KU, KA Band?

Just interested in hearing more on how they do it. I work in the industry so rather interesting

Ku Widebeam and the latest Spotbeam satellites from various suppliers including Intelsat, AsiaSat, JSat and many others. We did a deal with intelsat on two Epic NG Ku Spotbeam satellites to provide high speed capacity over North Atlantic, EU and Asia. Overlapping spots capable of up to 170Mbps. We do not own any satellites but do have long term lease agreements to provide the transponder setup (link budget) that we require.

 

[Hawkwind]

Oh god, dont go there.

The dullest meetings I've ever experienced involved what felt like endless discussions on the virtues of various satellite bands. It was 10ish years ago, but the mention of such things still makes me shiver

Won't disagree with you there. So much BS spouted on this subject as well. A huge debate on Ku vs Ka with a lot of companies invested in Ka running comparisons against widebeam Ku rather than the latest spot beam (apples vs apples). Try to stay out of that and concentrate on the service.

 

[Billargh]

Awesome work @Hawkwind! next time I fly I could be fapping to brazillian fart porn THANKS TO YOU

You live stream that shit? Hook me up brah!

 

[TdC]

costs munnies brah! ...or you could sign up as a *participant* and get free access to all content!

 

[- English -]

munnies is probably an understatement..
gold is more accurate

 

[TdC]

gifv g0ldz!

 

[smurkin]

I flew to Seoul via lufthanse and back last week - sadly the wifi service was pretty unreliable - when it worked it gave about 3.5 Mbps down and about 0.3 Mbps up - but it kept dropping out - mostly over Russia. This was on two different planes. I hope they sort it out - didnt feel great having to pay and not getting much for it - but its a great thing, internet on long haul when you are bored out of your mind and tired of watching endless movies.

 

[Hawkwind]

So do Panasonic have their own satellites now? or are they leasing from someone like ViaSat? What kind of solution are they using? KU, KA Band?

Just interested in hearing more on how they do it. I work in the industry so rather interesting

Oops completely forgot about this. Satellites we currently have space on are as follows:

Ku Widebeam

• W2A - Multiple Transponders
• SES6
• G17
• G14R - Multiple Transponders
• T11N - Multiple Transponders, T11NCA, T14R
• AsiaSat 5 - Multiple Transponders
• Apstar 7, Apstar 6
• Yamal 300
• GE23NP, GE23SP, GE23SWP, GE23SEP
• AnikG1
• Superbird C2 - Multiple Transponders

Ku Spotbeam

• Intelsat EpicNg 29e and 33e Multiple Transponders on each
• 
• Eutelsat 172B Asia Pacific just signed and not seen the bandwidth/footprint yet or how we will utilise it.

As far as aircraft are concerned we have signed up - between 3000 and 4000 aircraft, so the biggest fleet by far of the aircraft service providers.