This includes a satellite to receive the movies, a cache server to hold them, a local area network to distribute them to the right screens, and media players and digital projectors for each screen.
Carson says Boeing contracted out virtually all the hardware--the onboard antennas linking the plane to a satellite, which then feeds data back and forth with a terrestrial server, comes from Japan's Mitsubishi Electric, and the internal Wi-Fi gear is from Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ).