[Satellite TODAY 05-14-13] In-flight entertainment and connectivity is expected to grow the use of satellite services in the next 10 years to reach $3.4 billion in revenues, according to a recently released report from Northern Sky Research<\/b> (NSR).
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\n \u201cThis trend will be strongest in the narrow-body and wide-body aircraft market where the race is on between providers of high capacity bandwidth to support airlines\u2019 desire for in-flight connectivity as a major differentiating factor in a difficult market,\u201d a May 13 NSR press release stated.
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\n Claude Rousseau, senior analyst with NSR and author of the report, predicts that in the next 10 years, the aeronautical satcom market will see close to 80,000 in-service units across L-band, Ku-band and high throughput satellites (HTS) to serve both passengers and crew.
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\n \u201cEven if a majority of units will be for basic communications, the big revenue driver will be in-flight entertainment connectivity systems, which will drive Ku-band and HTS transponder demand and generate $670 million in capacity revenues,\u201d Rousseau said.
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\n According to the release, growth is projected in all markets.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cNSR expects the aeronautical segment to be one of the most important satcom growth markets over the next decade. As bandwidth increases to meet the needs of a commercial passenger market on the rise, there will be a wave of airlines in the short- to mid-term aiming to install and offer Wi-Fi, GSM, voice and data services. And with new systems launched offering tens of Mbps to a single aircraft, there is an increasing aspiration by airlines to afford high throughput satellite capacity as a means to sustain demand,\u201d the release stated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[Satellite TODAY 05-14-13] In-flight entertainment and connectivity is expected to grow the use of satellite services in the next 10 years to reach $3.4 billion in revenues, according to a recently released report from Northern Sky Research (NSR). \u201cThis trend will be strongest in the narrow-body and wide-body aircraft market where the race […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-81046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81046"}],"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=81046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}