IONA working with Connexion by Boeing

IONA, and Connexion by Boeing, a business unit of the Boeing company, has announced that IONA's Orbix and Orbix/E are serving as the integration broker technologies helping to power the delivery of high-speed internet connectivity services to mobile travellers.

Through the Connexion by Boeing service, mobile travellers have real-time broadband access to the internet, e-mail, firewall-protected corporate intranets and audio and video entertainment content on selected trans-Atlantic flights.

In addition to service demonstrations with leading European airlines Lufthansa and British Airways, Connexion by Boeing is also working with Japan Airlines and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS), which have announced their intent to equip their long-haul aircraft with this connectivity service. Full-scale rollout of the service is expected to begin in 2004.

IONA's Orbix and Orbix/E software is used by Connexion by Boeing to control and monitor the satellite communication link that supports the delivery of mobile information services to airline passengers.

On aircraft equipped with the broadband connectivity service, IONA's Orbix/E is embedded in the airborne electronics to facilitate inter-process communication.