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COMMUNICATION as one of the market drivers. A number Another innovation by Ceragon is the is believed that this number will reach to be delivered to the national operator of sensors, such as downhole sensors, concept of “Point to Multipoint”. This thousands by the next decade, which in October. Arild concludes that “Cer- radar surveillance of oil spills, video sur- is a high-capacity Point to Multipoint makes Point to Multipoint look to be a agon is the only microwave company veillance on the rig and underwater also (P2MP) solution that delivers up to vital form of communication for vessels that provides a complete end-to-end in need high bandwidth communications in 200Mbps of aggregated traf? c, to sup- operating within a oil ? eld or even an oil house solution that includes a stabilized order to be viewed and controlled from port voice, data and high-resolution vid- basin. It’s important to remember that antenna, meets the ATEX Zone 1&2 re- shore bases. Vsat for example only offers eo applications. The solution offers ex- large oil ? eld such as the Libra pre-salt quirements, and provides state of the art a latency of 500 milliseconds, whereas cellent performance in harsh conditions, ? eld in the Santos Basin has an area of microwave radio technology (Modem,

Pointlink offers less than 5 milliseconds. and robust near line of sight (nLoS) and over 1,500 square kilometers and when RFIC). By offering tight integration be-

PointLink provides higher capacity and non-line of sight (NLoS) performance fully developed will be populated by a tween all components, Ceragon delivers lower latency connectivity than satel- capabilities. It supports an extensive number of FPSOs and an even larger the best performance across all param- lite solutions, while guaranteeing lower range of sub 6GHz frequency bands, and number of support vessels and even eters – capacity, reliability and range. deployment cost than ? ber optic cable. is suitable for small cell deployments. oil tankers, which will load up with oil What’s more, Ceragon has extensive

Its stabilized antennas deployed on FP- It has the capacity to bring “h” band to from some of the FPSOs offshore and expertise in offshore microwave and has

SOs and rigs, stay in perfect alignment several locations at once, by dividing will also need reliable communications. established solid relations with leading for connection to land-based facilities or sectors between 90 and 120 degrees. Even with Petrobras’ ongoing crisis, Oil & Gas companies”. With the con- to other moving offshore installations. Inside these sectors many vessels may Arild still remains highly optimistic and tinuing growth of the Brazilian oil and

The greatest advantage to IO operations interact through the same network, and remarks that this has not affected their gas market, onshore and offshore, robust is that PointLink’s reliability and high have communications at the same time, orders. The only setbacks have been the and reliable communications will see a capacity enable the transition of data making it a form of offshore cloud. In slowing down of the ordering processes steady increase in demand over the next from offshore assets to onshore locations the Campos and Santos Basins offshore while Petrobras sets is priorities, howev- decade, with IO offshore assets requir- while maintaining a “virtual presence” at Brazil there are hundreds of vessels and er there have been no cancellations and ing fail-proof communication systems in each of the offshore locations. rigs operating at any given time and it a number of communication systems are order to operate smoothly.

Ceragon’s Rendition of a Digital Oil? eld Communications Scheme.

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