{"id":66158,"date":"2018-02-09T00:52:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-to-bring-high-speed-connectivity-to-united-airlines\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T00:52:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:52:49","slug":"viasat-to-bring-high-speed-connectivity-to-united-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-to-bring-high-speed-connectivity-to-united-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasat to Bring High-Speed Connectivity to United Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Viasat<\/strong> announced a new contract with <strong>United Airlines<\/strong> to bring its latest generation In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFEC) system to more than 70 aircraft, including at least 58 of United\u2019s new <strong>Boeing<\/strong> 737MAX aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Viasat will serve as the direct in-flight Internet Service Provider (ISP) to United, deploying its IFEC system to provide United customers access to internet connections from the air \u2014 from accessing their favorite websites to connecting with key business applications such as a corporate Virtual Private Network (VPN) and secure email. Viasat\u2019s IFEC system will also power&nbsp;United\u2019s Private Screening entertainment option, which offers customers access to hundreds of entertainment titles from its onboard library direct to their devices.<\/p>\n<p>United will tap into Viasat\u2019s Ka-band satellite system, which will include the ViaSat 1, ViaSat 2 and ViaSat 3 satellites. This capacity will allow United to deliver internet connections gate-to-gate and perform over-the-air content uploads to its onboard entertainment system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viasat announced a new contract with United Airlines to bring its latest generation In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFEC) system to more than 70 aircraft, including at least 58 of United\u2019s new Boeing 737MAX aircraft. Viasat will serve as the direct in-flight Internet Service Provider (ISP) to United, deploying its IFEC system to provide United customers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}