GNG News Guy
06-25-2008, 01:03 PM
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Boing Boing (http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/24/american-airlines-wi.html) has a little more detail on Aircell's "GoGo" service that's going to be offered by both American Airlines (the maiden voyage is this week (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/American-Airlines-Broadband-Trials-This-Week-95540)) and Virgin Airlines. We already knew that the service would cost $9.95 for flights three hours or shorter and $12.95 for longer flights, but executives are now offering some additional details. Some websites will be free to access (American's AA.com site, news headlines and Frommers' travel guides), and neither company will employ website filters (though VoIP will be blocked):Where American is firm, however, is about VoIP: no phone calls from the plane! Backelin said, "For VoIP, Aircell is going essentially make VoIP unusable; we are focusing on a data-only service." While some folks have laughed at the notion that Aircell could entirely suppress voice, I have noted in the past that introducing jitter, dropping packets, and suppressing known forms of VoIP data based on scheduling and frequency would go a long way to making real-time communication impossible without affecting downloads and streaming video.
The current Aircell GoGo system also equips each plane with an 800GB server they haven't decided what to do with yet (caching Internet content and multimedia are both considered). Today's American Airlines stress test of the system will be followed by a broader launch in a "few weeks".
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/American-Airline-Broadband-Wont-Use-Website-Filters-95575)
Boing Boing (http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/24/american-airlines-wi.html) has a little more detail on Aircell's "GoGo" service that's going to be offered by both American Airlines (the maiden voyage is this week (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/American-Airlines-Broadband-Trials-This-Week-95540)) and Virgin Airlines. We already knew that the service would cost $9.95 for flights three hours or shorter and $12.95 for longer flights, but executives are now offering some additional details. Some websites will be free to access (American's AA.com site, news headlines and Frommers' travel guides), and neither company will employ website filters (though VoIP will be blocked):Where American is firm, however, is about VoIP: no phone calls from the plane! Backelin said, "For VoIP, Aircell is going essentially make VoIP unusable; we are focusing on a data-only service." While some folks have laughed at the notion that Aircell could entirely suppress voice, I have noted in the past that introducing jitter, dropping packets, and suppressing known forms of VoIP data based on scheduling and frequency would go a long way to making real-time communication impossible without affecting downloads and streaming video.
The current Aircell GoGo system also equips each plane with an 800GB server they haven't decided what to do with yet (caching Internet content and multimedia are both considered). Today's American Airlines stress test of the system will be followed by a broader launch in a "few weeks".
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/American-Airline-Broadband-Wont-Use-Website-Filters-95575)