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Honeywell, Inmarsat, Eclipse Team Double Satcom Wi-Fi Speeds
High Data Rate software upgrade will provide peak speed of 2.75 Mbps.

Honeywell, teamed with Inmarsat Eclipse (an Inmarsat service provider), has developed new High Data Rate (HDR) capabilities that will double in-flight Wi-Fi speeds for aircraft and helicopters through an on-aircraft software upgrade. The team has completed flight and lab tests of HDR capabilities from Inmarsat’s L-band SwiftBroadband network over Honeywell’s HSD-40 and HD-710 on-board hardware. Eclipse is using its Aero+ Velocity IP aggregation program to combine four HDR channels to provide average speeds of 2.15 Mbps and peak speed of around 2.75 Mbps. The three partners will jointly offer the higher speed capabilities.


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