VSAT
MARPOINT
In fact it appears that no matter what time of day it is, nor where we find ourselves here on planet earth, that same 24/7 level of expectancy and dependency in a strong internet connection has now firmly ingrained itself into the human psyche.
Even within yachting the idea of having a fully connected home- office / home-entertainment environment on board means that many are being equipped with communications technology capable of offering enough transfer speed and bandwidth capacity to satisfy those high-level demands.
It’s not just owners and their guests requiring VOIP conferencing and media streaming capability either. Typically, the captain and crew will now receive not just chart corrections and their real- time weather and routing information online, but most of today’s shore-based management companies will require a strong and reliable gateway for the safe and secure transfer of data for all kinds of operational, analytical and forecasting functions, such as logging, maintenance scheduling and reporting, accounting, crew management, hours of work and rest, spares and inventory management, work lists and so on. Many large yachts with a
MarPoint Ltd is a maritime IT company that specialises in providing “out of the box” solutions for the maritime and yachting industry. Marpoint designs and creates unique internet communications platforms, for yacht and mega- yachts, commercial vessels and cruise ships. The Marpoint Unified Management Platform provides the option to create Crew internet hotspot cards, allowing the office to share the FBB or VSAT monthly data package allowance of each vessel with the crew members. By sharing a percentage of the cost with the crew, the office saves on satellite monthly costs while the crew gets internet access at very low rates. Marpoint Crew internet offers almost complete customization as part of the Crew Internet Café. Ship Managers and owners can then customize the crew internet by PIN-based or User-based crew accounts. For more details Tel: +30 211 800 5251 or visit
www.marpoint.gr
Safety Management System need good internet for drawings & document management and ISM/ISPS reporting is now handled through a reliable internet connection.
Partly through its long association with military and commercial shipping, SatComms technology has traditionally enjoyed the lion’s share of the remote communications market, but with even higher speeds and higher data carrying capacity coming in the form of 5G networks, we can expect to see more cellular technology extending the communications reach for yachts quite a lot further in the future.
Suffice to say that with an increased demand for high-speed bandwidth and competitive pricing, the yacht market now has a very good choice of both VSAT (very small aperture terminals) and land based communication providers. To maintain a good and
BUZZ WIRELESS
The 4G router solutions are a result of the teams and engineers knowledge and experience in the marine market as leaders in connectivity providing cost effective alternatives to marine satellite. Their routers give the ability to provide high speed internet access on board and provide a quality connection for both fixed devices on a wired network or Wi-Fi to the various smartphones, laptops and tablets. In such situations, the costs against VSAT are comparatively minimal and worthy of the time invested to provide this increasingly essential service. For more details Tel: +44 (0)800 037 5555 or visit
www.buzzwireless.co.uk
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