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SPOTLIGHT AIX HAMBURG 2024

that are commonly used on
the ground, “Edge Comput-
ing” and “Cloud Computing”.
Deploying them onboard
aircraft is a novel and in-
novative way that provides
significantly more capability
and capacity.
Edge computing is running
workloads at the “edge”,
closer to devices and end
users, whereas “cloud” com-
puting is a broad term that
includes running all types of
workloads in a cloud service
provider’s data center. In
context of this product, the
aircraft would be considered
Safran Passenger the “edge” and Safran Pas-
senger Innovations is creat-
Innovations ing a “cloud” data center on
each aircraft by leveraging
the computing and storage
introduces RAVE resources already installed
onboard. Based on existing
capability, Safran Passenger
for next-Gen IFEC Innovations is designing its
next generation platform
without the need for a physi-
platform cal head end server at all,
adding significant capability
to every aircraft without ad-
ditional cost or weight.
Safran Passenger Innova-
afran Passenger What is RAVE Cloud ence for passengers. tions’ Vice President of
Innovations has Sync? RAVE Cloud Deploy is a dis- Products and Strategy, Ben
introduced a set of RAVE Cloud Sync is a tribution service with a focus Asmar says “We see RAVE
Snew cloud-based content distribution service on software installation and Cloud Services as one of the
services to drive its next that uses multiple concur- activation. This service also next disruptors of the IFEC
generation In-Flight Enter- rent pathways to update IFE utilizes multiple distribution industry. It will completely
tainment and Connectivity or airline content to aircraft pathways, with the key dif- change the way we look at
(IFEC) platform, branded un- fleets quickly and remotely. ference being how software possibilities on board the
der the banner RAVE Cloud Content is transferred using deployments are managed. aircraft, opening new oppor-
Services. satellite connectivity, cel- RAVE Cloud Deploy uses tunities that are not possible
RAVE Cloud Services will lular modem, aircraft Wi-Fi a centralized tool to easily today, and doing this by
have two main elements, Dis- networks and even physical manage this process across leveraging existing installed
tribution Services and Edge media if needed. This mix of large fleets, with a report- equipment. This means we
Cloud Computing Services. different concurrent path- ing mechanism providing will be able activate RAVE
The cloud infrastructure ways allows large volumes Realtime status. Cloud Services for our
deployed both on the ground of content to be delivered customers with a software
and on the aircraft, creating a in a short timeframe. This Edge Cloud Computing update. No expensive
scalable, reliable, and flexible service will ultimately allow Services and heavy new hardware
service-based infrastructure, airlines to be constantly in- Edge Cloud Computing tech- required or complicated
is designed to move large tegrating new content onto nologies will be the founda- retrofits. We are leveraging
volumes of data to and from their fleet, breaking the cur- tion of the next generation the value of our customers
aircraft, as well as process rent monthly content cycle RAVE Platform. Safran previous investments and
and store large volumes of paradigm and providing a Passenger Innovations is unlocking the power of the
data onboard the aircraft. much more dynamic experi- combining two technologies latest RAVE Platform.”

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