Press Release

Issued by Argon FDS.

October 17, 2018

With more business jet passengers demanding a premium travel experience in the sky, FDS Avionics has integrated its best-in-class inflight entertainment system with the industry's only next generation air-to-ground connectivity service, SmartSky 4G LTE, creating a new inflight entertainment and connectivity option.

FDS CEO Reed Macdonald says, “This collaboration between FDS and SmartSky brings together two of the most exciting products in aviation. This pre-integrated solution will give our customers the fastest internet, the best inflight entertainment, and the most immersive moving map technology available on the market.”

FDS has been delivering the doCAPSULE, a streaming media and moving map platform, for over two years. This multi-media platform provides business aviation with unparalleled access to licensed Hollywood content and an extremely immersive 2D and 3D moving map experience. Combining this solution with SmartSky's state-of-the-art 4G LTE-based inflight connectivity will provide an exceptionally robust passenger experience for a wide range of business aircraft.

“SmartSky has long touted the benefits of its open architecture, where operators retain flexibility to choose the elements they want from the providers they want, rather than a vendor-locked, all-or-nothing approach,” says SmartSky Networks president Ryan Stone. “This week we are showing customers how they can use their own devices to both stream over our 4G LTE network and also get the benefits of the excellent FDS inflight entertainment solution.”

The two technologies have been pre-integrated together to create a powerful inflight environment.