Avionics
Glufstream orders Arinc's broadband
Gulfstream yesterday ordered 40 of Arinc’s new SkyLink inflight broadband satellite communications systems for installation on its jets.

Gulfstream yesterday ordered 40 of Arinc’s new SkyLink inflight broadband satellite communications systems for installation on its jets. It is the launch order for the system, which Arinc claims offers Internet connections that are five times faster and a third the price of Inmarsat’s rival Swift64 service.

Arinc senior director for inflight passenger systems Tom Mullan said that SkyLink is now achieving connection rates of around 540 kilobits per second. By the time the service goes fully operational during the second quarter of next year it is expected to deliver data rates as high as 8 to 10 megabits per second. The Annapolis, Md.-based company sells monthly subscription packages along the lines of those in the cellphone market and these equate to a connection cost of around $3.33 per minute.

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