AirSatOne has added features for users of its satellite communications services, including data compression to make more efficient use of available bandwidth and the ability to filter data use by passengers to avoid high airtime charges. The new Flightstream SA services are free to any AirSatOne customer, according to Jo Kremsreiter, president of AirSatOne, and do not require that AirSatOne’s Flightstream AOC router be installed.
“You don’t need an AOC router in the airplane to use SA,” he said. “You don’t have to have any hardware in the airplane, [just] a PC connected to the Internet.” Once logged in to the SA service, the customer can see all of the airplanes in the fleet and then individually adjust or monitor each airplane’s satcom parameters or change parameters for the entire fleet or for a group of airplanes. Users can also monitor satcom parameters by region.
