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News Release from: The Technology Partnership | Subject: Design services
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 11 January 2007
RF management unit design is key to air
system
TTP has completed the design and implementation of a key enabling technology for the provision of airborne mobile phone services for the market-leading AeroMobile system.
TTP has completed the design and implementation of a key enabling technology for the provision of airborne mobile phone services for the market-leading AeroMobile system AeroMobile provides airborne mobile telephony systems that permit the safe use of passengers' own mobiles on commercial aircraft
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 Feb 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Passengers will be able to safely use their own mobile phones in aircraft equipped with AeroMobile just as they do on the ground.
The AeroMobile system has been selected by Dubai-based airline Emirates for fleet-wide deployment and Australian airline Qantas for a domestic trial.
AeroMobile was also featured by Boeing on its 777-200LR Worldliner aircraft in 2005.
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TTP's unique skill set provides high technology solutions.
One of the key requirements for onboard mobile telephony is to prevent passengers' handsets from communicating or attempting to register with the existing ground-based mobile phone networks.
This is necessary to support regulatory approvals from the appropriate telecomms regulatory authorities in each country that is overflown by an AeroMobile-equipped aircraft.
To meet this requirement, TTP designed and implemented a cellphone radio frequency management unit (CRFMU) using the latest digital and RF technologies that successfully isolates the passengers' phones and the AeroMobile system from possible interference to ground telecommunications networks.
TTP was able to bring a wide range of expertise to this project, including RF design, high-speed digital electronics, embedded software and mathematical modelling.
The company's project management techniques enabled it to meet challenging international deadlines with the first units being made available within short timescales whilst still meeting the high standards of design and technical performance demanded by the aerospace industry.
AeroMobile Marketing Director, David Coiley comments: "TTP offered a very highly skilled and innovative approach to the development of the CRFMU, producing working units within very tight timescales whilst still allowing a flexible approach to accommodate the evolving technological and regulatory goals".
Peter Taylor, TTP Managing Director, added: "We are delighted to have been able to bring so many of our skills to bear in this exciting development for AeroMobile".
"TTP is uniquely placed to undertake such developments and our teams thrive on the challenge".
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