Mon, Oct 03, 2016
Aero-News: Quote of the Day
ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.
Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.
Reader suggestions and comments are welcome... and if particularly intriguing, timely, or poignant, may themselves become future Quotes of the Day.
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Aero-News Quote of the Day
"Leveraging our first generation network is key to making this next generation network highly reliable and economical to deploy. Gogo's next generation network will also be backward-compatible with Gogo's first generation network, which means an aircraft will be able to seamlessly switch between Gogo's fthe two networks networks similar to how a cell phone on the ground connects to the fastest available network."
Source: Anand Chari, Gogo's CTO, as a new generation of ground-based technology to better serve the connectivity needs of business and commercial aviation in North America is under development by Gogo. The new network will use unlicensed spectrum, a proprietary modem and a new beam-forming antenna to produce peak network speeds of more than 100 Mbps. This next generation ground-based network for the aero market will utilize LTE technology and leverage Gogo's existing first generation North American network and infrastructure of more than 250 towers.
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