Airborne Wireless Network (ABWN)

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ABWN Market capital was almost 1 Billion dollars in january 2018 @ 2,98 $ pps - HUGE !!!


The US based Airborne Wireless Network (AWN), meanwhile, is working on using commercial aircraft for its Wholesale Carrier Network that are capable of generating wireless internet signals. It has formed various partnerships to develop; design; test and manufacture a customized hybrid synchronized laser-based communication system. The system will serve as the link between aircraft and ground stations to form a chain of signal repeaters and routers within its airborne mesh network concept.

In December, GE Aviation https://www.geaviation.com/ became AWN’s latest partner after signing an agreement to provide tactical-grade inertial reference units with embedded GPS that AWN will use for heading, pointing and stabilising its communications system. AWN says that it has made a lot of progress toward developing the FSO element. And in May 2017, it demonstrated the first successful ‘proof of concept’ test when it utilised two Boeing 767 aircraft and RF in an air-to-air/air-to-ground broadband link. The next phase will be to increase the bandwidth with the addition of the FSO element and also undertake a 20 aircraft test.

AWN sees the most significant and target applications as being within the wireless wholesale broadband business model for the telecommunications and internet service providers of broadband capacity. “By employing the FSO, we will potentially employ a 10-gigabit path initially and a path to 100-gigabit bandwidth,” says the company. The company intends to begin the system rollout shortly after the 20 aircraft test.

As internet traffic continues to rise, the global free space optics market will continue to increase. And in that event, even more exciting innovations and free space optics applications can be expected from within the FSO technology space in the coming years.

https://www.electropages.com/2018/05/data-transmission-boosted-by-free-space-optics/