Air-IQ enables ISR operators to transmit high volumes of data from numerous aircraft sensors. By seamlessly shifting from low to high throughput, Air-IQ supports bandwidth-hungry and time-critical applications that can make a difference between success and failure.
Air-IQ meets the demands of the mission around the globe.
Air-IQ flexes around your needs. You can manage multiple aircraft through a single contract, with user-defined regional uplink prioritization for greater commercial efficiency.
Get a bird’s eye view of what Air-IQ can do for you.
Todd McDonell, President, International Government, Viasat
From take-off to landing, Air-IQ enables seamless switching between different types of technology, delivering the most suitable, on-demand return throughput capability.
The ISR platform has a global baseline capability upon initial take-off, with enhanced capability when it moves closer to the region of operation, with TDMA technology delivering a committed data rate. You can ramp up that capability via dedicated lease-based SCPC technology to facilitate highly sophisticated ISR on-spot activities.
And when the mission is completed, Air-IQ rolls back to either regional or global packages for the remainder of the non-critical journey.
Air-IQ's tailored ISR capability across mission cycle.
Our services provide guaranteed service levels with unlimited data and, thanks to multiple layers of fallback, connectivity certainty wherever your platforms fly:
Although 3-5Mbps per link for multiple platforms operating in the same region is sufficient for most operations, Air-IQ delivers 10Mbps+ per platform that more sophisticated missions often require.
With more operations conducted in contested environments, you can rely on Air-IQ to deliver the committed service levels you need, as well as more versatile and resilient communication solutions to develop PACE planning.
Air-IQ provides a secure, self-service control platform and advanced management through SD-WAN capabilities, while its anti-jamming capabilities, data encryption, and network security monitoring ensure a low probability of intercept / detection (LPI/LPD).
Air-IQ makes it easier to meet increasing requirements for indigenous capability development (e.g. terminals) and augmentation of sovereign capabilities, supporting seamless roaming between networks and services.
Recognizing the growing pressure on defence spending, Air-IQ is designed to offer a more accommodating, cost-efficient service that can be adapted to individual applications and use cases.
As a truly comprehensive solution, Air-IQ includes airtime service, aircraft fit-out, ground segment, and control platform.
Air-IQ offers three service levels:
Air-IQ offers essential hardware components for aircraft fit-out. Establish an effective mission communication system with an ISR terminal and enhanced G-MODMAN.
The Air-IQ hardware portfolio offers the flexibility to choose the airborne terminal that best fits your ISR platform and makes modem integration easy. You can even incorporate your own preferred modem.
Air-IQ offers a highly secure, dual redundant global infrastructure to support end-to-end connectivity. All ISR traffic is routed, switched, managed, and protected in a fully closed private network.
Operation and management of Air-IQ services is handled via a secure control platform. The Air-IQ digital platform is built on the INVISON software, developed as part of the European Space Agency project.
The solution architecture between ISR platforms/operators and our Viasat satellite network.
