EMS Aviation… Aspire In The Air (SatCom)

[SatNews] Offering voice and data connectivity, this Company’s technology is Cessna bound…

EMS Aviation, a division of EMS Technologies, Inc., has announced that Vancouver, British Columbia-based Anderson Air has selected the Aspire™ 200 LG airborne communications system for its Cessna® Sovereign aircraft. Anderson Air operates the aircraft for a Canadian company. The Aspire 200 system includes a CNX® 200 Network Accelerator and is designed to deliver feature-rich voice and data connectivity to owners and operators of small- and medium-sized business aircraft. Key features of the Aspire system include standard wiring configuration and interfaces that support either Iridium or Inmarsat components. Operators can easily upgrade systems without rewiring the cabin or changing out the avionics racks. The system can be upgraded by exchanging the Aspire CSU Iridium (voice and low-speed data) transceiver for the Inmarsat HDU (voice and high-speed data) transceiver, and also by adding a higher gain Inmarsat antenna. Aspire’s Inmarsat system data rates run from up to 200 kbps with a low-gain antenna, to 330 kbps with an intermediate-gain antenna and 432 kbps with a high-gain antenna.