Thrane & Thrane last month introduced to the North American market Aero-HSD+, a data satcom system noteworthy for being the first such product the Danish firm will market and sell under its own name after providing core technology for airborne satcom systems to Honeywell, Thales and Universal Avionics.
Optimized for mid- to high-end business jets, Aero-HSD+ integrates global voice, fax and cockpit communications and includes a version with two high-speed Inmarsat Swift64 data channels linked together to provide a 128-kbps data rate. At the NBAA Convention in Orlando, Fla., last month, Thrane & Thrane officials said Aero-HSD+ is smaller, lighter and more compact than any comparable existing Inmarsat aeronautical satcom terminal. It combines the Aero-H+ and Swift64 Inmarsat services, and is available in two versions. The Aero-H+ service provides two global voice, fax and PC modem data channels and one packet data channel for cockpit communications.
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