Complete airtime and in-flight solutions provider, Satcom1, and aircraft technologies innovator Vision Systems, teamed up to provide cutting-edge satellite communication and cabin application management solutions, tailored to business jet market.
With the introduction of Satcom1’s router application suite AvioIP, Vision Systems’ VisiConnect offers the highest standards within satellite bandwidth access and utilisation, as well as in-flight cabin communication applications.
Users can now benefit from a broad range of communication solutions based on Inmarsat’s SwiftBroadband service, from ordinary voice to shared IP for internet, fax over IP, streaming services, voice over IP (VoIP) solutions, video conferencing, in-flight entertainment (IFE) and data compression.
VisiConnect comes and completes the on-demand functionalities already offered through the Vision Systems’ revolutionary VisiBox: cabin management, multimedia broadcast, audio/video on-demand (AVOD), moving map, personal radio / TV programmes and games.
Vision Systems Aeronautics managing director and senior vice-president, Jérôme Monvaillier, said: "We are excited about this collaboration with Satcom1 that will enable us to offer a complete solution while continuing to answer the needs of our clients in terms of weight reduction and ease of maintenance.
"Vision Systems’ IFE solutions are easy-to-install, light, customisable and scalable system. The first installation on a Beechcraft aircraft is already in place and further installations are soon to come."
Satcom1’s CEO, Karina Bergstrøm Larsen, said: "This partnership is major landmark for us. Beyond providing airtime services at competitive prices, our router software AvioIP is now available on one of the most advanced and sophisticated combined router and IFE systems on the market.
"The partnership with Vision Systems means that we can now offer our solutions to the very high-end VVIP business jet market."