Some of this information supplies the information to the “black box” of a plane but it is not the “black box”. The other type of equipment Teledyne produces is used to dataload the plane. This is equipment and software that will “upload” and “download” information, typically software, from components within the plane. A very simplistic example of this would be a plane uses a navigation database for its travels and every 28 days the airlines are required to update this database. Teledyne doesn’t create the navigation database but it has equipment and software which puts the navigation database onto the navigation equipment and downloads from that piece of hardware any data files needing to be review by the …show more content…
Currently the airlines will manually retrieve the data and upload the software to the plane but this creates scheduling issues, manning and overhead. With the expiration of the paten in a couple years Teledyne is already working on an updated solution for the Comm+. They are looking at the integration of multiple types of equipment into a 1 box solution. The one thing the paten allowed Teledyne to do was to get their product onto the planes and have the customers get accustomed to the product and the ease of use. Since the airlines don’t like updating their planes and like to have 1 system that works for as long as possible it is in Teledyne’s best interest to keep trying to get new sales and when the patent expires be ready to absorb the lower sales but maintain a strong relationship with the customer. Teledyne has also created a Wi-Fi version that also performs the similar task but runs into limitation as the unit has to be configured to connect to an airlines or terminals Wi-Fi thus reducing the coverage but removing the manual element of maintaining the