Kontron this week announced its partnership with Thales, to design and manufacture the Enhanced Terminal Wireless LAN Unit (eTWLU) for the company’s GateSync system.
The Thales GateSync system is a high-performance wireless ground connectivity solution for airports and airlines.
The eTWLU is a small sealed ARINC-763 compliant wireless transceiver that supports multiple high speed wireless protocols allowing the GateSync system to be deployed at airports throughout the world.
The system enables airlines to wirelessly load and offload content and data while an aircraft is on the ground.
The Kontron eTWLU features the high performance PowerPC processor architecture.
In order to ensure maximum connectivity throughput and reliability to off-aircraft networks the Kontron eTWLU is integrated with multiple radios -- two 802.16-2006 WiMAX radios supporting 10MHz channels operating from 5.725 – 5.875 GHz, a single 802.11a/g Wi-Fi radio, and a GPRS/EDGE/HSPA-capable GSM radio.
The multi-radio approach maximizes the aircraft’s ability to communicate with ground networks. Also, an internal GPS receiver reports equipment locations to the GateSync network operations center (NOC) and software management system.