Global Eagle to Elevate Airline Passenger Experience Over North America with More SES HTS Satellite Capacity
Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. (NASDAQ: ENT) is intending to offer airline company passengers taking a trip throughout North America with a connected inflight experience much more like the one travelers delight in on the ground, tripling the amount of high throughput satellite (HTS) capacity safeguarded with SES Networks aboard the SES-15 satellite.
SES introduced today that Global Eagle has safeguarded a major boost of Ku-band ability on its new crossbreed SES-15 HTS satellite to make it possible for the distribution of high-speed broadband and a wide range of inflight communications and functional applications aboard commercial airline trips throughout the United States, consisting of the progressively important United States landmass to Hawaii routes.
The multi-year agreement is the most up to date contract to be authorized by Global Eagle. In the past numerous years, Global Eagle has doubled its ability with SES Networks on approximately every eight months to fulfill the rising demand for top notch inflight connectivity all over the world.
" Global Eagle is dedicated to meeting the fast-growing airline company traveler demand for inflight connectivity with robust, scalable satellite bandwidth anywhere anywhere in the world," stated Joshua Marks, Global Eagle's Executive Vice President of Connectivity. "With the enhancement of this significant bandwidth from SES 15, Global Eagle will certainly have the biggest satellite aeronautics network in The United States and Canada."
"SES operates the biggest satellite fleet on the planet, providing safe, scalable capability that makes it possible for SES Networks and our customers serving the air travel industry to remain well in advance of the ever-changing inflight connection needs and demands," explained John Matlaga, Vice President, Sales Aero & Fixed Information, The United States And Canada at SES Networks. "Global Eagle and SES have struck this latest arrangement to ensure the best feasible traveler experience for millions of air visitors capturing flights across North America.
SES-15, which is now functional at 129 levels West, is made to offer air travel paths over North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean with an adaptable mix of vast light beam and area light beam protection customized to the needs of individual airlines.
