{"id":69315,"date":"2016-11-28T20:17:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T12:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/european-aviation-network-completes-first-test-flights\/"},"modified":"2016-11-28T20:17:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T12:17:06","slug":"european-aviation-network-completes-first-test-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/european-aviation-network-completes-first-test-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"European Aviation Network Completes First Test Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 11-28-2016] The European Aviation Network (EAN) has reached a significant milestone today after <strong>Inmarsat<\/strong>, <strong>Deutsche Telekom<\/strong> and its technology partners <strong>Nokia <\/strong>and <strong>Thales <\/strong>successfully conducted a program of test flights in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The EAN is planned for introduction in the middle of next year. The companies involved view this test flight program as a major milestone in the development of EAN, an integrated satellite and air-to-ground network dedicated to providing \u201ca true in-flight broadband experience for the European aviation industry and for millions of passengers travelling across Europe,\u201d according to a statement released by Inmarsat.<\/p>\n<p>As a precursor to the test flight series, Deutsche Telekom and Nokia jointly achieved the first EAN live over-the-air connection, in Nokia\u2019s Stuttgart laboratory. There, all components of the LTE ground network were thoroughly tested and validated. The first live connection in the field was accomplished in a broadband video conference with both parties connected via the dedicated EAN LTE mobile network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe actual performance and quality of the in-flight datalink exceeds design expectations,\u201d Leo Mondale, president of aviation for Inmarsat said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 11-28-2016] The European Aviation Network (EAN) has reached a significant milestone today after Inmarsat, Deutsche Telekom and its technology partners Nokia and Thales successfully conducted a program of test flights in the United Kingdom. The EAN is planned for introduction in the middle of next year. The companies involved view this test flight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69316,"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-69315","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\/69315"}],"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=69315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}