{"id":67676,"date":"2017-07-25T19:43:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T11:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/faa-grants-viasat-approval-for-its-gen-2-ifc-system\/"},"modified":"2017-07-25T19:43:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T11:43:18","slug":"faa-grants-viasat-approval-for-its-gen-2-ifc-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/faa-grants-viasat-approval-for-its-gen-2-ifc-system\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA Grants ViaSat Approval for Its Gen 2 IFC System"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>ViaSat<\/strong> has received Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) approval from the <strong>Federal Aviation Administration <\/strong>(FAA) for its second generation (Gen-2) In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFEC) system. The certification allows ViaSat to offer internet service on Boeing 737 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Achieving STC approval demonstrates the flight worthiness of ViaSat\u2019s Gen-2 Ka-band radome, antenna, entertainment software and in-cabin Wi-Fi distribution system.&nbsp;According to ViaSat, the system enables faster Wi-Fi speeds; throughput levels of up to 1 Gigabit per second; forward and backward compatibility with the ViaSat 2 and ViaSat 3 class satellites; and 30 terabytes of solid-state storage.<\/p>\n<p>The first installation of the Gen-2 equipment was certified on a Qantas 737-800 aircraft in June 2017. ViaSat expects to offer more than 3.5 terabits per second of total global capacity in the next few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ViaSat has received Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its second generation (Gen-2) In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFEC) system. The certification allows ViaSat to offer internet service on Boeing 737 aircraft. Achieving STC approval demonstrates the flight worthiness of ViaSat\u2019s Gen-2 Ka-band radome, antenna, entertainment software and in-cabin Wi-Fi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67677,"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-67676","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\/67676"}],"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=67676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}