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

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

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

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

Gary in 2003 Conjuring up product roadmap

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

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

Current IFE systems: 500 lbs of Cable

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

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

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 Pasted from <http://www.trenderresearch.com/profiles/blogs/another-contender-looks-good>

SiBeam 60 GHz Technology http://www.sibeam.com/technology/omnilink60_demo.html

Wireless Uncompressed HD Video in Your Living Room

FCC Regulations

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)

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

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!

Ka-band Rain Fades Example: Telesat http://www.kusat.com/govsat.php?path=/ka/qa.php

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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