Cabin-edge appliance & ground fleet portal
IFES puts live channels and films on seat-backs, cabin displays and the passengers' own phones, from equipment that flies in the hold. Audience and bandwidth stop being the same number.
The appliance receives each channel once, repackages it in the cabin and sends it to every screen over the aircraft's own network. A second passenger watching costs nothing on the satellite link.
What you are buying
The appliance does the work in the cabin and needs nothing from the ground to keep playing. The portal is how your engineering team sees the fleet without boarding an aircraft.
A single unit in the hold. It pulls each channel from your ground origin over a loss-tolerant satellite transport, repackages it for the cabin, and drives seat-backs, the aircraft's own displays and passenger devices from the same source.
One page per aircraft and one view across the whole fleet, so the people responsible for the cabin can see it without boarding the aircraft.
Why airlines choose it
Most of what makes a cabin feel modern is out of an airline's hands the moment the aircraft leaves the stand. This part does not have to be.
Every extra passenger watching is free, because the aircraft already has the channel. Satellite capacity is bought once, not once per seat.
The entertainment comes from equipment on board, so a weak or missing link to the ground does not empty the screens. Passengers notice the difference on exactly the flights where it matters.
The same channels reach fitted screens, cabin displays and the phone already in a passenger's bag, with nothing to install from a store and no mobile data used.
The fleet portal shows what every aircraft is doing and flags the ones that need attention, so a problem becomes a work order before it becomes a complaint at the gate.
A single appliance in the hold serves the whole cabin. It works with the satellite service you already fly on, and moves with you if you change it.
Built in Riyadh
IFES is designed, built and supported by Five Rivers Limited Company, a Saudi group working across travel and tourism, general contracting, MEP services, hospitality and catering, and technology. The aircraft it flies on are supported by the same people who wrote it.