News - Boeing 787 Dreamliner's Android powered entertainment system

[HEXUS]

Qatar Airways installed 508 ARM Cores, 254GB of memory and 63.5TB of SSD storage.

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[Tobeman]

Thomson also must have a few... they're flying to Mexico and Florida, aren't they supposed to be the first to get their grubby mits on them? I have a stack of Avios building up so might be nice to put it towards a BA flight on one of these. I'll be sure to quiz my flight attendant on the specification of their i8000 Avant TPMUs

[Andeh13]

hahaha, Thales is the company I used to work for! About time they got themseleves in the news for something...

[semo]

This is an impressive setup. I didn't expect for airlines to keep up with such modern tech or go with something so open and obvious (as opposed to coming up with some stupid complicated custom solution). My company hasn't even switched to SSDs with 100s of new computers coming in over the next few months .

[Ross1]

All that SSD storage on the actual device is a bit baffling if you are grabbing all the content from the 'central server'. Especially given its going to be a very high percentage of the overall cost of the device.

[OilSheikh]

Is So much SSD space really needed?
Using SSD will drive up the price of the system!

[Funkstar]

Is So much SSD space really needed?
Using SSD will drive up the price of the system!

My guess is the most popular (and most likely to be used) content is on the local SSD. The rest of the media archive available on the aircraft will be on the server.

508 cores on the plane, so that's 254 seats on the plane, each with a dual core. the network bandwidth needed to steam the latest block buster to even half that number of clients will be a fair challenge, especially when each client will be starting the film at a different time, so it can't my a multicast stream.

Having it set up like this also means if there are problem with the server, at least you should still get the local content.

[crossy]

Thomson also must have a few... they're flying to Mexico and Florida, aren't they supposed to be the first to get their grubby mits on them?

First airline in the UK - at least according to http://www.firstchoice.co.uk/sun-hol...87-dreamliner/, and the First Choice shop I was in the other day actually had a display with leaflets about this, so they must be pretty chuffed.

This is an impressive setup. I didn't expect for airlines to keep up with such modern tech or go with something so open and obvious (as opposed to coming up with some stupid complicated custom solution).

Last couple of planes I've been on with these kind of systems were all based around Linux - does me old hacker's heart good to see a boot-up sequence scroll past on the screen after the safety demo.