10 Dec 2018 This ain't over, Viasat snarls as tribunal rules in satellite rival's favour
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The tribunal also said that, from the evidence it heard, the EAN satellite’s “maximum capacity is 42.1Mbits/s or 19 Gbytes/hr and the ground cells’ aggregate capacity was 34,268 Mbits/s or 15,421Gbytes/hr.”
It added, after hearing figures from experts: “What we can say is that those figures demonstrate that the satellite by itself can service no more (and probably less) than 2 aircraft on the high load scenario, and something like 20 aircraft on the low load scenario.” The high load scenario was expressed as 50 per cent of passengers aboard an airliner “streaming, browsing and using social media”. The low load scenario's details were redacted from the judgment because it revealed commercially sensitive information.
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Nonetheless, only around eight per cent of European flights (“44 aircraft”), according to the evidence shown to the tribunal, are expected to need the satellite instead of the ground stations. The CAT said: “If only half of those were fitted with EAN then the low load scenario would be capable of being fulfilled in respect of practically all those planes,” while adding that these projections may not “necessarily reflect the real world operation of the system.”
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