AIX REVIEW
AIX REVIEW Richard Williams reports from this year's Hamburg show page 82-87
Zodiac celebrates its 100th RAVE installation
AIX '14 Zodiac has installed its low power, light-weight, high-definition IFE system on its 100th aircraft. The RAVE system features seat-centred
architecture with content that is easily and quickly updated with SD cards. It has a very responsive capacitative touchscreen, with a choice of passenger interfaces giving a horizontal or vertical application bar. One neat feature is a 10-second rewind button for when passengers miss a vital part of the film as their meal arrives. Zodiac can provide content via a
complete turnkey service or work with the airline's own content service provider. Apart from the movie section, there is the facility to provide shopping, discounts, duty free, inflight magazine, moving map, meal menus and ordering and many other
Gogo launches new 2ku system
AIX '14 Gogo has launched a new 2ku
system, which doubles up the antenna on the aircraft, and is claimed to be twice as spectrally efficient as the previous one. Whereas the old system provides wifi
to around 100 passengers, this one is designed to be a whole plane solution. It is also designed to work all over the
world, without relying on the ATG network in the US and Canada. It uses the global ku band network of over 100 satellites. The new system has a low profile of 4.5in, which reduces drag and saves fuel, and
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applications. Passengers can use their PEDs as a second screen, for example to watch the moving map, and connect to the internet on wifi-enabled aircraft. Harry Gray, vp sales and marketing, said the move away from server-centered architecture has made the system much lighter and easier to maintain for their
also makes it less vulnerable to birdstrikes. Michael Small, ceo of Gogo, said it was was the most TV-friendly system on the market and that Gogo had an exclusivity agreement with the manufacturers giving it sole rights to the technology. Anand Chari, cto, said the system was
extensively tested for efficiency of the reception and that JAL will be the first to trial it, aiming to have it in service in 2015. Gogo also announced its agreement with Air Canada to continue installing the ATG wifi system on its fleet. Air Canada presently has two wifi-equipped Airbus 319 aircraft operating in North America and plans to outfit its remaining Airbus A319, A320 and A321 and Embraer 190
fleet types, as well as its Air Canada Express CRJ-705 and Embraer 175 aircraft. The installations begin in May with the goal of completion by December 2015 for all 130 narrow-body aircraft. The system offers connection speeds comparable to mobile broadband on the ground.
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customers. He said: "Our system is ideal for both single-aisle and wide-body aircraft and uses the same hardware part numbers which reduces spares and logistics costs." RAVE is now being used by over 20 airlines including Lufthansa, SAS, Air Berlin and other prominent carriers
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