Friday, October 23, 2009

Wireless-in-the-Sky Airliner Services

I've been working the past couple of months with AP Labs, one of the leading equipment makers for airborne military systems, who has now turned that expertise toward something that many of us have been anxiously awaiting - "wireless-in-the-sky" Wi-Fi services aboard commercial airliners.

AP Labs' Cab-N-Connect family of servers and wireless access points already form the on-board network foundation for the leading service providers in this space - such as Row44 and Aircell. Some of the major airlines already deploying the systems are Delta/Northwest, Alaska, Southwest, American, Air Canada, Virgin, AirTran and others (either large-scale tests and/or committed to full-fleet roll-outs for 2010).

Read more in the whitepaper