Gogo AVANCE is Enterprise Aviation’s Solely True Know-how Platform

In 2018 Gogo launched the AVANCE connectivity platform and the brand new expertise represented a paradigm shift for inflight connectivity in enterprise aviation. Since that point, AVANCE has been so nicely acquired that others in enterprise aviation have caught the “platform” bug.

You see it in advertisements, advertising content material, and gross sales pitches. Many expertise gamers in enterprise aviation are speaking in regards to the “newest and biggest platform” or “our new and improved (insert buzzword) platform.”

However what, particularly, is a expertise platform? What does it do and what advantages should it present to warrant that time period?

 

To reply that query, we requested Gogo to see the way it defines “platform,” and to clarify how AVANCE meets the factors.

Perception From the Consultants

“A expertise platform is a gaggle of particular person elements introduced collectively to make a cohesive unity,” stated Jeremy Tyler, vp of software program purposes engineering. “You usher in software program, {hardware} and instruments to create a constant expertise for the consumer. Apple is a good instance.

“The Apple iOS working system is the “brains” throughout its {hardware}, however Apple created a complete digital ecosystem the place every thing could be built-in, mechanically synchronized by way of the cloud, and even up to date between any Apple machine,” he continued. “The result’s a seamless, constant “Apple” expertise impartial of what machine you’re utilizing it on. AVANCE may be very related.

In response to Gogo, AVANCE software program is the “brains” on all of its techniques – L3, L5 and SCS – and future merchandise as nicely, resembling international LEO broadband. Gogo makes use of one working system that detects what techniques and companies it’s related to so each characteristic Gogo provides is on the market to each system.

“It doesn’t matter if our system is on a Gulfstream heavy-iron plane or a turboprop like a Pilatus PC-12, the expertise is similar,” stated Tyler. “And the profit for plane homeowners, operators and passengers is that Gogo can get improvements and updates into their fingers nearly immediately: issues that different suppliers must do with {hardware}, which requires placing the plane down for a time period for the change which takes time and is pricey, we will do over the air.”

By way of {hardware} engineering, AVANCE is constructed modularly, and it’s designed to be what the corporate calls “plug and play” which makes it simple for purchasers to develop and improve their inflight Wi-Fi expertise.

“Once we create a brand new answer, we don’t have to start out from scratch, we will merely use our base set of options,” stated Chris Rippe, Gogo distinguished member of technical workers product improvement. “When we have to do an improve, we will design it as soon as for the entire platform. 5G is a good instance of this modular design. When a buyer is able to improve, they received’t must take away any {hardware} so as to add 5G velocity to their AVANCE L5 system – as an alternative, they’ll merely plug a small Gogo X3 LRU into the AVANCE L5, very like the way you’d join a peripheral like a printer to your laptop computer.”

AVANCE additionally provides operators complete inflight connectivity and leisure in a single LRU that has been designed to be future-ready proper out of the field which permits Gogo to:

• Simply add new networks resembling Gogo 5G and the brand new international LEO broadband system
• Immediately deploy new companies over the air
• Remotely deploy help and software program updates over the air
• Rapidly connect with and allow new third-party purposes

“Once we lowered our service altitude from 10,000 ft AGL to three,000 ft, each AVANCE buyer acquired that replace over the air,” stated Rippe. “Our prospects by no means needed to contact the plane or carry it down for that improve to be applied, and Gogo is the one connectivity supplier in enterprise aviation with that functionality.”