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| | PC World - In-Flight Internet Spreads Its Wings |
 | | At least one-quarter of the bandwidth 5 mbps is given over to passenger data needs with another quarter devoted to carriage of television broadcasts, a quarter for airline use, and the final quarter as a buffer to provide extra bandwidth to the other applications when needed, he said. |
 | | "Connexion by Boeing gives [passengers] a lot of choice about how they spend that time [on board], whether it be listening to music, surfing the Net, communicating through instant message or e-mail, or, if they are part of a corporate structure, going through the firewall and accessing their network," he said. |
 | | The system puts no restrictions on applications that can be run--it's a selling point of the service that users can run the same applications they normally do from their desk or home--although there is the ability to shut off or restrict users if they become "bandwidth hogs," Carson said. |
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