Technology & Systems

Christiane Ducasse – Vice President of Sales, Smartjog

Posted on 08.10.11

Can you think of a smart way to send movies and TV programs around the world without using Fedex or DHL? Perhaps we can jog your memory?

For a number of years now, distributors, labs, hardware companies and content service providers have been using Smartjog to send encrypted TV shows and movies around the world electronically instead of using a courier service. Now airlines are starting to see the benefit of using the service for delivering content files in minutes rather than days.

Time to find out more as Steve Harvey meets with the Vice President of Sales at Smartjog, Christiane Ducasse.

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Mohamad El Assaad – Senior Manager, IFE, Gulf Air

Posted on 23.09.11

This week sees the inaugural flight of the first aircraft to feature Panasonic’s new Global Communications Suite, eXConnect.

Gulf Air is the launch customer and, in this exclusive PME Interview, Mohamad El Assaad, Senior Manager, IFE and Communications, reveals the airline’s new Skyhub product.

If you’re an airline thinking about upgrading your in-flight connectivity and communications you won’t want to miss it!

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Tagged with: aircraft • airlines • connectivity • entertainment • eXConnect • Global Communications Suite • Gulf Air • IFE • in-flight • Mohamad El Assaad • Panasonic • Skyhub

Stuart Dunleavy – VP Marketing and Customer Proposition, Thales Corporation

Posted on 08.09.11

One company that’s certain to make a huge impact at next week’s APEX Expo is the Thales Corporation. Their brand new Avant IFE system was the first to be approved by Airbus as offer able on the A350. Exciting times at the Thales HQ in Irvine where Steve Harvey went to meet Stuart Dunleavy, VP Marketing and Customer Proposition, to look ahead to next week’s APEX show in Seattle.

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Joe Renton – CEO, The IMS Company

Posted on 07.09.11

How do you deal with the challenges associated with success? That’s the conundrum facing the IMS Company as, having won both industry plaudits and sizable orders for their new RAVE embedded IFE system, the company now faces the not inconsiderable challenge of delivering and installing the RAVE product to launch customer Lufthansa. In today’s APEX preview interview, CEO Joe Renton reflects on how the company is meeting the challenge.

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Doug Cline – CEO, Lumexis

Posted on 06.09.11

For the Lumexis Corporation, 2010 was the breakthrough year when the company finally secured an order for its revolutionary fibre optic based IFE system for the flydubai fleet of 737s. This was followed soon after by a second order to fit the system to a fleet of wide bodies. Doug Cline, CEO of Lumexis, reviews an eventful year and looks ahead to APEX.

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Joel Otto – Senior Director of Marketing, Rockwell Collins

Posted on 05.09.11

While the industry IFE heavy weights, Panasonic and Thales, slug it out in the wide bodied market, Rockwell Collins has been quietly concentrating on supporting dPaves, its overhead IFE solution for narrow bodied aircraft as well as its phenomenally successful Airshow product. So what’s in store on the Rockwell Collins stand at APEX next week? Senior Director of Marketing, Joel Otto, is just the man to reveal all – or nearly all…

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Martin Cunnison – Managing Director, Intelligent Avionics

Posted on 04.09.11

Welcome to The PME Interview Special, previewing some of the ground breaking exhibits you’ll be seeing at next week’s APEX in Seattle. First up, Martin Cunnison, previously with Mezzo and Blue Box but now Managing Director of Intelligent Avionics. At Aircraft Interiors in Hamburg the company revealed the bare bones of their new AURA embedded IFE system, promising to demonstrate the finished product in Seattle. So are the Brits ready to fly with AURA? Click on the link to find out.

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Neil Morgan – Sales and Marketing Manager, In-flight Peripherals

Posted on 19.08.11

If I’d collected every business card bearing the name ‘Neil Morgan’ over the past 30 years, I’d probably have enough to wallpaper my study! No sooner do you get used to Neil working for one company when he hands you a new business card and announces he’s joined another. When we recorded this interview back in May, Neil was at ‘The IMS Company’ promoting their new RAVE IFE system. Surprise, surprise – when we come to release the interview, I discover Neil has recently joined Geoff Underwood’s team at In-flight Peripherals as Sales and Marketing Manager. So when you bump into Neil at APEX, expect yet another new business card!

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Tagged with: APEX • entertainment • Geoff Underwood • IFE • in-flight • In-flight Peripherals • Neil Morgan • RAVE IFE system • The IMS Company

Mark O’Brien – COO, Project Lambda

Posted on 09.08.11

Despite the recent arrival of many Android based tablets, Apple’s iPad still rules supreme in the consumer market. But, following initial optimism, the iPad is still awaiting the crucial backing of Hollywood distributors for use as an onboard IFE device featuring early window content. One man who’s been spearheading the campaign to gain that approval is Mark O’Brien, initially as part of the UK based BlueBox team and more recently as founder and COO of Project Lambda. PME’s Steve Harvey talks with Mark about the improvements in the iPad 2 and recent progress in his quest for the holy grail – obtaining the green light from Hollywood for early window content.

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Tagged with: Android • Apple • BlueBox • COO • device • early window content • entertainment • Hollywood • IFE • in-flight • iPad • iPad 2 • onboard • Project Lambda • tablets

David Coiley – Director of Aeronautics, Inmarsat

Posted on 24.07.11

When you meet with one of those terribly nice techie people at a trade show like APEX and they start talking about satellite communications and the fact that Ku band is better than L band but what they’re really looking forward to is Ka band, do your eyes glaze over or do you just feel horribly inadequate? Well here at PME we thought it high time to come to your rescue and shed some light on these mysterious terms and how they’re going to affect airlines and inflight entertainment in the future. Steve Harvey’s special guest today is the Director of Aeronautics at Inmarsat, David Coiley…