{"id":79101,"date":"2013-12-14T01:21:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T17:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/jetblue-launches-viasat-enabled-ka-band-in-flight-broadband\/"},"modified":"2013-12-14T01:21:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T17:21:45","slug":"jetblue-launches-viasat-enabled-ka-band-in-flight-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/jetblue-launches-viasat-enabled-ka-band-in-flight-broadband\/","title":{"rendered":"JetBlue Launches ViaSat-Enabled Ka-band In-Flight Broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 12-13-13] In-flight connectivity options have increased with the launch of <b>JetBlue<\/b>\u2019s Fly-Fi in-flight Wi-Fi service. Fly-Fi is designed to deliver high-quality Internet capable of serving 50 to 70 personal devices simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>The system \u2013 including a LiveTV portal, aircraft Wi-Fi system, and integration for JetBlue \u2013 is capable of delivering 12 Mbps or more to each connected passenger. The satellite-based system, Exede In The Air, can also operate on the ground, enabling airlines to take advantage of the recent FAA ruling allowing passengers to use their personal electronic devices at all stages of flight, with gate-to-gate Wi-Fi connections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a simple reason why air travelers haven\u2019t had access to fast broadband: Legacy technologies don\u2019t enable a sufficient amount of bandwidth delivery to the plane at a cost that makes sense for airlines or consumers,\u201d said Don Buchman, director of mobile broadband, ViaSat.<\/p>\n<p>Exede In The Air transitions between Ka-band spot beams within the ViaSat1 footprint in flight to keep passengers connected. The complete network service is now FCC licensed in North America and FAA certified for operation on <b>Airbus<\/b> 320 and <b>Boeing<\/b> 737 aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 12-13-13] In-flight connectivity options have increased with the launch of JetBlue\u2019s Fly-Fi in-flight Wi-Fi service. Fly-Fi is designed to deliver high-quality Internet capable of serving 50 to 70 personal devices simultaneously. The system \u2013 including a LiveTV portal, aircraft Wi-Fi system, and integration for JetBlue \u2013 is capable of delivering 12 Mbps or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70684,"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-79101","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\/79101"}],"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=79101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}