1. EMS Aviation Keeping Your World Connected™
WAEA SFW on Connectivity
March 2010
Gary Hebb
VP Innovation and Strategy
EMS Technologies

2. Introducing: EMS Aviation
Ottawa, Canada
Tewkesbury, UK
Moorestown, NJ
EMS SATCOM
EMS Formation
EMS Sky Connect
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EMS Aviation
Takoma Park, MD
Other pertinent Stats?
Norcross, GA
Adelaide, Australia
Office, Manufacturing /
Research & Development
Headquarters 2

3. The Network is Ready Personal Devices Transceivers Servers
Access points
Antennas
Satellites
Gatelink
Corporate
Network
Air to
Ground
Internet
Firewall

4. Short Burst Data Low Speed Data High Speed Data Broadband Data Safety Services Live TV Video Servers Wi-Fi

5. Gary in 2003
Conjuring up
product roadmap

6. Looking forward from 2010
Cinema quality wireless seatback video distribution
Ka-band antennas

7. HD wireless video distribution
Do we need it?
What data rates do we need?
Is it possible?

8. Current IFE systems: 500 lbs of Cable

9. Largest Contiguous Frequency Allocation in History Sets Blogosphere Atwitter
7 GHz of Spectrum

10. 60 GHz Unlicensed Band
To Do: Find out about all the other countries

11. 60 GHz Technology Compared to WiFi SiBEAM 200 times as much spectrum
L band
1 to 2 GHz
S band
2 to 4 GHz
C band
4 to 8 GHz
X band
8 to 12 GHz
Ku band
12 to 18 GHz
K band
18 to 26.5 GHz
Ka band
26.5 to 40 GHz
Q band
30 to 50 GHz
U band
40 to 60 GHz
V band
50 to 75 GHz
E band
60 to 90 GHz
Compared to WiFi
200 times as much spectrum
50 times the capacity
SiBEAM
4 GBps, uncompressed HDMI
SiBEAM makes smallest phased array antenna, ever
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12. SiBeam 60 GHz Technology

13. Wireless Uncompressed HD Video in Your Living Room

14. FCC Regulations

15. I don’t want to discourage you, but ….
Emerging standards probably not scalable to 100s of seats.
Complete blockage by human bodies, drink carts
Power Consumption (Gigabit data rates)

16. Ka-band Much Lower Cost per Bit than Ku or L Spot beam coverage
More spectrum
Less complex antenna (than Ku)
No polarization steering required
More difficult steering problem
Can be resolved

17. Only Regional Coverage at Ka-band
Need Ku to cover the oceans?
It’s hard enough to pay for one broadband antenna.
Regional Ka-band competes with Air-to-Ground
tough competition!

18. Ka-band Rain Fades Example: Telesat

19. Gary’s Long Term Outlook
Wireless HD video distribution at 60 GHz can probably be made to work, but will keep folks like me busy for a long time.
The technical problems at Ka-band can be solved, and can make passenger communications much more affordable. They are definitely worth solving if a global Ka network is built.

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