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Iridium announced on last 7 September the creation of a free service called Iridium AxcessPoint Mail & Web app which will be available before the end of the year 2011. This will be a mail and web compression service, hosted by Iridium, specially designed to optimize data transmission with the new Iridium WiFi router Iridium Mail.
This service will offer each user of the new Iridium phone 9575 Extreme or model 9555, connected to the AxcessPoint WiFi router, the ability to send emails or surf the web from a WiFi connected device. Mac and PC, iOS smartphones and tablets (iPod, iPhone and iPad) will be supported by a specific application soon available. iPad users will therefore be able to connect to the Iridium satellite network to directly receive GRIB files, send emails and feed a blog.
Richard Ray already announced that iNavX (for iPhone/iPad) will support downloading and displaying GRIB weather files via Iridium AxcessPoint WiFi (In addition to standard WiFi and cellular connections), in the next iNavX update.
The AxcessPoint router
AxcessPoint Wi-Fi is a lightweight and portable device to connect with a USB cable to handset 9575 and 9555 to create a WiFi hotspot which can connect compatible devices. Of course this means active Iridium data service subscription. Must first activate Iridium handset and ensure a good reception, then once connected by the USB cable activate the AxcessPoint. The Internet connection will be automatically established. We can then connect the devices to it via WiFi. Data transfer speeds remaining low, AxcessPoint connection can be optimized by using a web and mail acceleration software.
Iridium 9575 and AxcessPoint connected via USBIridium AxcessPoint Mail & Web app
Iridium AxcessPoint Mail aims to be a fast satellite mail service, reliable and easy to use. It will provide the following functions :
- Mail transfer up to 15 times faster using a compression protocol and a custom server
- Filtering attachments in receipt
- Recovery of POP and IMAP compatible services (Yahoo!, Hotmail ou Gmail)
- Resume interrupted file and auto detection
- SMS notification of emails received on the Iridium phone
- Virus scanning and spam filtering
- DES / PGP encryption
This service will of course dedicated to email and internet light-surfing. It is not recommended for network applications requiring large bandwith such as video or music.
Iridium AxcessPoint Mail & Web app was developed to be compatible with a wide range of operating systems :
- Windows 7, Vista and XP
- Apple Mac OSX
- Apple iOS on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
The service and application will be free for Iridium subscribers using the Iridium AxcessPoint WiFi router. Airtime fees to acceed the Iridium satellite network will remain standard. The application will be available downloaded from the website iridium.com before the end 2011.
So this is great news for all potential iPad users, hampered by the impossibility of receiving GRIB weather files directly on their tablet at large. I hope to have the opportunity to make configurations in the winter 2012 to see how it all works.
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Do you think we will be able to test this on the ARC?. A little hello from Almerimar, still the wind in my nose, bon, it was marked on Weather4D, I’m taking this opportunity to download the new version and get started with Cape, for the waves, I see roughly, so once again thank you Francis, thank you Olivier and … No thanks to the Mediterranean
I hope you are talking about winter 2011.. that is to say the one who comes ….
regards
François
Oui, Of course !