LOADED. Talking Software for Connected Aircraft

"The cloud becomes the brain, and the aircraft is just an edge node." It sounds like a slogan, until you ask what it actually means for an airline. Great connectivity that keeps passengers online mid-flight is nice. But if that is all an airline does with it, the benefit ends at passenger comfort. The real value starts when the cabin becomes part of the airline's cloud, not the other...

Ask around in aviation and you will hear the same promise: add edge caching, and your in-flight entertainment keeps running when the connectivity drops. It does not. Edge caching only exists as a combination of what sits on board and what stays in the cloud. So what is edge caching really, and where does it stop? In this fourth episode of "LOADED. Talking Software for Connected Aircraft"...

Connectivity is changing what is possible in the aircraft cabin. And one of the biggest shifts it unlocks is live streaming – not as a niche add-on, but as a real part of the in-flight entertainment experience. The infrastructure is arriving. But there is more to it than flipping a switch. In this third episode of "LOADED. Talking Software for Connected Aircraft", Ralph Wagner and Stefan...

Airlines have more passenger data than ever. The connectivity is arriving. But knowing your passenger often ends the moment they board – and starts again only after they land. That gap is closing. In this second episode of "LOADED. Talking Software for Connected Aircraft", Ralph Wagner and Stefanie Schuster (Axinom) discuss how a connected passenger journey looks end-to-end: from managing passenge...

For decades, the aviation industry was used to buying hardware. Software was just an add-on. That is not what today's world looks like anymore. The technology is here, and airlines want to use it. In this first episode of "LOADED. Talking Software for Connected Aircraft", Ralph Wagner and Stefanie Schuster (Axinom) dive into decoupling software and hardware in the cabin, and how airl...