Aero Communications System (ACS)

Continuous, all-weather airborne relay systems have been used for more than half a century but not in commercial service. The business requirement is straightforward; capital and operating costs for reliable service must be well below least-cost terrestrial systems. AeroFon’s founders designed the ACS with pre-service costs less than one tenth the deployment costs of comparable ground-based wireless systems. ACS operating costs are also significantly less than conventional wireless systems.

AeroFon’s ACS is essentially an extremely tall antenna tower that uses radio frequency repeaters (a well established technology for extending ground-based cellular service) to relay signals between subscribers using commodity digital subscriber units (e.g., cell phones) and cellular infrastructure equipment.  To increase ACS capacity, directional antennas segment coverage into multiple spots equivalent to sectors in terrestrial systems.

The aerial vehicle (AV) used by AeroFon’s ACS is a light commercial aircraft with proprietary modifications to enable operation above airline traffic and weather. To avoid technological obsolescence and maximize system traffic capacity, the ACS digital wireless technology of choice is commodity code division multiple access (CDMA).

AeroFon offers three products, each product based on the amount of coverage:

ACS-1 is an entry level system designed to cover 45.000 square miles.

ACS-2 offers medium coverage of 90,000 square miles.

ACS-3 is a high coverage systems, able to cover up to 130,000 square miles.