Europe-based global major aerospace and defence group Airbus has entered into a partnership with Dutch high-technology industrial company VDL Group to develop and produce a laser communication terminal for aircraft. Designated UltraAir, the terminal would be based on development work jointly undertaken by Airbus and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). Laser communications systems could transmit 1 000 times more data at ten times the speed of current radio networks. Laser systems were also immune to interference and detection, while being very difficult to intercept, because of the narrowness of their beams. This would also allow laser communications terminals to be lighter, need less power, and be more secure than radio networks.
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