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Tell us a bit about your company. communication equipment. The speci? - And, in closing this interview, can you people and technology.

We focus all of our energy on our only cation includes numerous tests regarding share with our readers your wishes for And I would wish for experienced location in Wilnsdorf, Germany. We try the environment (heat, cold, vibration), the future? KVM experts to fall from the sky, be- to keep hierarchies as ? at as possible. security and electromagnetic compat- A stable economic environment, since cause, as you can imagine, ? nding peo-

Our employees talk to their team lead- ibility (EMC) and meets international stability provides the opportunity for ple who are familiar with such a special ers who then talk to the CEOs. Our entire standards. future-oriented growth for investing in technology is not easy.

workforce is united under one roof. This has the advantage of being able to keep lines short and ? exible; an aspect from which our customers bene? t immensely.

Currently, about 100 employees contrib- ute to our success.

Fortunately we need to think about how to divide our employees to indi- vidual tasks and assignments than vice versa. All our employees have enough work throughout the next years. The exact number of turnover, however, re- mains an intimate detail we don’t want to make public. (Ollek smiles when he speaks about global market share/export share) Well, as you know, we‘d like to keep these data to ourselves. But let me try to explain it in this way: Until 2008, G&D was active almost exclusively in German-speaking and nearby European countries. Since then we’ve been selling our equipment in many more countries. Now you can ? nd G&D hardware anywhere from Ca- nadian icebreakers to cruise ships in the

Mediterranean Sea. Just recently we ? n- ished an order by installing our KVM so- lutions in one of the latest and most mod- ern large cruise ships, the MV Quantum of the Seas.

This ? rst ship of the Quantum class sets new standards in terms of eco-friendli- ness. It features highly energy-ef? cient systems, optimized hydrodynamics, heat recovery, an effective underwater paint coating, a state-of-the-art exhaust gas treatment plant (hybrid scrubber) as well as energy-saving LED lighting systems.

Sophisticated alarm, safety and commu- nication systems combined with the lat- est technology in propulsion and naviga- tion is typical for Royal Caribbean cruise ships. The same high standard applies to entertainment and interiors. And G&D

KVM is part of it. But not to forget: we had to make sure that our products have been tested and certi? ed according IEC 60945.

IEC 60945?

G&D carefully selected speci? c prod- ucts of their portfolio to have them tested according to speci? cation IEC 60945, a particular speci? cation for maritime nav- igation equipment. Complying with this norm, G&D KVM products are ready to be applied in engine rooms, technology rooms and on ship bridges, IEC 60945 approved G&D KVM solutions qualify for usage alongside navigation and radio www.marinelink.com 33

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