New commercial vessel 4G offering
Responding to the marine industry’s demand to deliver robust and cost effective super-fast internet to users at sea, the France based Microwave Vision (MVG) Group has launched an innovative 4G offering, called S@iLink.
S@iLink brings super-fast internet (100 Mb/s) to maritime users from ship to shore with a 20 nautical mile radius (approx 37km). It’s also suitable for use on board ships and various vessels in coastal areas.
MVG said that one of the major reasons that a super-fast service has taken so long to come to fruition is that past offerings have always been costly, both for installation and then expensive for calls and data. S@iLink though is available to the market for a fraction of the price, at under €1,000 per system.
It has been designed specifically with marine weather in mind. With reinforced mechanics, it is tailored to withstand the harsh marine environment, high winds, corrosive and often unstable ocean conditions.
Through a two antenna transmitter receiver, the terminals connect to 4G networks or UMTS, GSM where 4G is not available. It’s suitable for use on fishing boats, yachts, research vessels, wind farm vessels, coast guard and sea rescue vessels.
S@iLink is the outcome of two years rigorous research in which MVG partnered with Thales Communications & Security, Alcatel-Lucent, Déti, Telecom Bretagne, supported by the two innovation hubs, Images & Réseaux and Mer Bretagne Atlantique (Project TMS).
By Anne-Marie Causer
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