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SATCOM

Stratos And Software

Kinetics Provide VTS To

Canadian Coast Guard

Stratos Mobile Networks, Racal and Software Kinetics Ltd. have reached an agreement with the

Canadian Coast Guard to supply a

Flag II Vessel Tracking System (VTS) for its fleet of 125 vessels.

The $2.1 million contract, building on a $300,000 pilot project from 1997, provides the Canadian Coast

Guard with vessel information through six Locator VTS control

FLAG II satellite vessel tracking from Stratos

Mobile Networks provides fleet location infor- mation for the Canadian Coast Guard.

All the boats in the Whitbread Around the World Race 1997/98 have chosen

Inmarsat terminals from Nera to keep in touch with the rest of the world du- ring this extremely tough regatta.

Nera's well-tested Saturn B and

Saturn C terminals ensure the participants standard phone connecti- ons, fax, e-mail and video recording transmission.

By the end of 1997 Nera had delivered nearly 2 000 B Marine ter- minals, which represents a market share of more than 40 percent.

During the autumn of 1997, Nera introduced a new satellite station which is well suited for small crafts and pleasure boats, but also ideal as ! NERA I

All Nera Inmarsat terminals are at the cutting edge of operational safety and connection quality.

Nera are the world's leading supplier of Inmarsat stations, with a worldwide service network of subsi- diaries and agents. relief or back-up for larger commerci- al vessels or passenger ships. The

Nera WorldPhone Marine is small, light, easy to use and install, and abo- ve all, affordable.

Nera Satcom AS

P.O. Box 91, N-1361 Billingstad, Norway

Tel.: +47 66 84 47 00, Fax: +47 66 84 43 10

Homepage: http://www.nera.no —o

OFFICIAL SUPPLIER OF

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION

EQUIPMENT

NERR

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Changing the way you communicate

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Flag II is a distributed informa- tion systems designed to work with many communications systems, and currently uses the North

American MSAT mobile satellite system to serve the Canadian

Coast Guard. For the initial two- year period, the data will be send from the vessel to the control cen- ters via the Stratos operations cen- ter, where the vessels will be tracked and all locations updated regularly. Forty-one units have already been installed, and the remaining 84 satellite terminals along with the complete FLAG II systems will be operational by July 1998.

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CSSI Offers New Inmarsat

Terminal

The new SPD2000M Maritime

Inmarsat Terminal for voice, fax and data communications is now available from Commercial

Satellite Systems, Inc. (CSSI).

The new terminal operates through the worldwide Inmarsat system of new Generation III satellites. Users can reportedly dial the number of any phone in the international telecommunica- tions network and the connection is established through the satellite to a land earth station (LES) and then automatically routed to the end user via the network.

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COMSAT Offers Daily News

Service to Mobile Satellite

Users Worldwide

COMSAT Mobile Communi- cations, worldwide provider of mobile satellite communications, recently announced the availabili- ty of COMSAT C-News, a free news service for mobile satellite users. Customers located virtually anywhere in the world can report- edly have daily access to the latest news from around the globe at no cost via a small, inexpensive

Inmarsat-C satellite terminal. "COMSAT now offers mobile satellite users a simple, conve- nient way to stay abreast of the latest events happening around the world," said Kathryn

Holman, vice president of sales and marketing for COMSAT

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