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'Broadband at Sea' for Trinity House
01 Jun 2004
Inventor of the radio and Nobel Prize winner Guglielemo Marconi would be pleased that the current incarnation of the company he founded in 1900 has been selected by the UK's Trinity House lighthouse service to supply, install and maintain the first SeaTel 4003 'Broadband at Sea' system to be ordered in the UK.
Marconi Selenia Marine have fitted the VSAT high speed data system on board the Trinity House lighthouse tender THVMermaid and will provide the service with all the advantages and facilities of land based broadband services at a fixed monthly cost. The installation has been so successful that Trinity House has placed an order for a similar system to be fitted on sister tender THV Patricia .The THV Mermaid is already fitted with Marconi Selenia Marine supported satellite communications equipment supplied by the company's Lowestoft UK office. The installation of the VSAT system is a continuation of the ongoing expansion of a computer networking system developed through close co-operation.
The product was chosen because the data throughput was of such a significant quantity that it justified upgrading to the SeaTel 4003 broadband system.
This service provides connectivity at 512 kbps inbound (satellite to ship) and 256 kbps outbound (ship to satellite). The system uses a 1.2m dome that is comparable in size with Inmarsat-B and Fleet 77 antennas.
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