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- MTN, BT Hook-Up Cruise Ships To Cell Phone Network Maritime Reporter, Apr 2000 #59
In a move which perhaps heralds the next plateau in at-sea communications. Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN) in Miami announced an innovative partnership in which its satellite communications network will be used for a new service developed and patented by BT A&M, BT's satellite communications division. Cruise Connect, as the new service will be dubbed, will enable passengers and staff on cruise ships to make and receive calls from cell phones at sea.
"MTN is excited to bring the extended convenience of connecting cellular networks with vessels served by MTN's global C-band network," said Bradford Briggs. MTN's senior vice president and general manager.
MTN is a leader in maritime communications, providing C-Band, voice, fax, data and internet communications to the cruise industry, the U.S. Navy, and to offshore oil and gas platforms around the world. MTN also provides ship-to-shore live video and radio broadcast capabilities in C-or Ku-Band.
The company — a subsidiary of ATC Teleports Inc.
of Fairfax, Va. — is on a strong growth pattern and has recently signed a five year lease on a 23,763-sq.- ft. building to expand its operations.
Cruise Connect functions via the installation of discrete, mini cellular stations installed on the vessels.
These stations are linked, via the MTN satellite communications network, to a mobile switching center within the land based cellular network. The system should prove desirable in many instances, as it allows the user to utilize their cell phones — to both make and receive calls to their normal number — as well as to receive billing via their regular statement.
It also will provide a valuable service, as the regular shipboard phones are disconnected the night before docking back at the homeport, so that billing can be reconciled by the morning disembarkation.
Circle 86 on Reader Service Card Comsat Expands Communications Pipeline Communications between ship and shore have evolved at light speed, driven by a handful of companies — new and old — which have persistently pushed the capabilities of satellite communications. A leader of this parade has surely been Comsat, which is one of the world's leading suppliers of global satellite services and digital networking services, products and technology.
Comsat offers a vast array of communication solutions, driven by and designed to fit owners' exacting needs, whether it be naval, commercial or offshore.
But Comsat has been far from passive in the advance- ment of communications at sea, and has introduced a number of services devised to illustrate to owners the cost and operational advantages of high volume, seamless communication solutions.
Chief among these are products geared to the quickly expanding cruise shipping market, a demanding market which requires high capacity and seamless communication systems for both passenger and crew purposes.
Comsat recently won a three-year contract with Cunard to provide worldwide data and voice satellite communications to Cunard's fleet of eight cruise ships.
In addition to services being provided via the Inmarsat satellite system, Comsat is also supplying a new 128 kbps C-Band service for the QE2, providing one of the most advanced shipboard satellite communication solutions available.
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- Luxury Cruise Ships & The French Connection Maritime Reporter, Feb 2018 #38
WiFi, cell phone and email connection, is paramount to success in today’s plugged-in world. “People will not cruise unless they have strong WiFi, cell phones and email available 24/7 anywhere in the world. This technology allows the cruise industry to remove barriers. People can go on fabulous vacations
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- Bollinger To Construct Supply Boat Trio Maritime Reporter, Feb 2001 #19
equipment onboard includes Furuno radars; a Furuno GPS unit with plotter; an autopilot; two Furuno VHF radios; Nautex antennas and Motorola cell phones
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- Bollinger Delivers 145-ft. Supply/Utility Boat To Bordelon Maritime Reporter, Aug 2001 #16
two Furuno radars; a Furuno GPS unit with plotter; an autopilot; two Furuno VHF radios; Nautex antennas and Motorola cell phones
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- Costa Places $450m Order With Fincantieri Maritime Reporter, Mar 2004 #40
in order to be in use all year round in any climatic condition. As a result of an agreement of September 2003 between Costa Crociere and TIM cell phones will be operable on board. Pier Luigi Foschi president and managing director of Costa Crociere said "our decision to increase capacity resulted from
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- Maritime Cybersecurity: A New Approach is Needed Maritime Reporter, Apr 2018 #16
, for example, the owner can redesign a network architecture to re-engineer how the system is being accessed, either through human-machine interfaces, cell phones, thumb drives, or connections to the Internet.This new approach allows the owner to take a fleet-wide view to determining the relative risk associated
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- Lithium Ion Battery Fires: A Threat to Container Shipping Maritime Reporter, Jul 2020 #56
underlying cause of each incident are lithium-ion batteries. Lithium Ion batteries have become an integral part of everyday life. Used in our computers, cell phones, cars, even e-cigarettes, there are very few electronic items that do not use these high-density batteries. The popularity is simple, better battery
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- Connectivity for Brown Water Operations Marine News, Nov 2017 #90
of current and future communications requirements is imperative to avoid ‘sticker shock.’ It is also recommended to block specific data services on cell phones and laptops via satellite. The app or update blocking can be handled through a communications management device, providing both the automated switching
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- Ready for Launch: MTN Nexus Targets high-volume Cruise Market Maritime Reporter, Feb 2013 #38
cruises to disconnect, they now want to upload pictures from their excursions on Facebook so family and friends back at home can see what they’re doing. Cell phones and tablets are now preferred over laptops to surf the internet, which has been pushing the industry to shape new communication products and services
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- Five Minutes With: Tore Morten Olsen, Astrium Services Maritime Reporter, Dec 2013 #12
? The $150 rough average spend by crew for personal communications is not only for satellite communications – it includes what they spend using cell phones and other means of communications when in the harbor or within GSM coverage. If they were willing to spend that much on satellite communications
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- View from the Top: Dr. James Delgado, NOAA Director of Maritime Heritage Marine Technology, Sep 2016 #9
field he has poured his life’s work into. When Delgado began diving into the depths looking for history under the sea, there was no Internet, no cell phones, and mapping a wreck underwater was done by hand, by setting up grids, using tapes and writing notes on plastic slates covered with Mylar. How
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- Master & Commander: Capt. Ted Bernhard Maritime Logistics Professional, Q4 2016 #30
, the last 20 years on containerships with Matson, the ubiquitous U.S. commercial maritime presence in the Pacific Ocean. Life at sea in 1979 – with no cell phones, no internet and no email – was fairly different than it is today, but was it better? Was it worse? To find out, Maritime Logistics Professional
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 45where communications are often denied or restricted. As part of the new alliance, Metron’s Resilient Mission Autonomy portfolio will be integrated into Cellula’s Solus and Imotus families of vehicles to deliver AI-enabled situ- ational awareness and execute real-time onboard mission adaption, rerouting
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 39cycles of the new battery to rise to its maximum capacity measured on the fourth discharge. After the ? fth discharge, the battery is recharged, the cell valves are removed, and the sixth discharge begun. Early in the sixth discharge cycle, the cells are ? lled to the top with mineral oil. Charge/recharge
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 38view of an AGM lead-acid battery. ? Nickel-Cadmium (NiCad) batteries have a lower nom- ment System) the batteries are individually balance charged inal cell voltage of 1.2v/cell. They can be recharged up to and balance discharged on the same two-wire bus. 2,000 cycles. Self-discharge rate is 20%/month
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 37miscible barrier ? uid heavier than seawater (sg=1.026) and lighter than the battery electrolyte (sg=1.265). The original cell vent cap was screwed into the top of the riser pipe to vent the gases associated with charging. Wires were soldered to the lead (Pb) posts. The lead-acid battery was additionall
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 36, including DHL, FedEx, Thus, there are no implodable spaces, and so are candidate and UPS, have speci? c guidelines available on their websites. cells for pressure-balanced, oil-? lled (PBOF) assemblies. This author has personally tested pouch LiPos to 20,000 psi im- Lead-Acid: The venerable lead-acid
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 35lower temperatures. The tem- initially. perature effects on capacity only begin to show up after the Some battery chemistries, principally Nickel-Cadmium cells pass below 0°C. (NiCd) and Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH), have recharge ? Lithium (Lithium-thionyl chloride, Li-SOCl2): These memory effects. The
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 34many strengths including that produces the current is irreversible. Examples include ? exibility of deployment location and tremen- alkaline and lithium cells. Secondary cells can be recharged dous sea? oor persistence. Stored electrical pow- by application of reverse current from a charger. The interior
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 23elatively inactive since 2014, the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai (HT-HH) submarine volcano began erupting on December 20, 2021, reaching peak intensity on January 15, 2022. This triggered tsunamis throughout the Pa- R ci? c, destroyed lives and infrastructure, and generated the largest explosion recorded
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 18mounted on a rotating head. Called FiGS, the design effec- more effectively, basing them on the residual life of the an- tively counters the issue of cell drift and the need for calibra- odes, thereby optimizing the frequency of inspections and re- tion. Moreover, the rotating mechanism enables the sensor
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 17spill events on pipelines to saving time seabed sediments or under rock dump (pipelines). and money across decades long maintenance regimes. Proximity or cell to cell technologies which also required There are several methods available for measuring CP condi- frequent calibration stabs are limited to just
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 15sensor options for longer mission periods. About the Author For glider users working in ? sheries and conservation, Shea Quinn is the Product Line Manager the Sentinel can run several high-energy passive and active of the Slocum Glider at Teledyne Webb acoustic sensors, on-board processing, and imaging
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 43say that crews must be soft- tive fuels, carbon capture, batteries and and a regulatory framework which takes ware engineers, but there is no going fuel cell power will all provide critical account of the ‘graceful deterioration’ of back: there has to be both a systematic pathways to maritime decarbonization
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 37SIMULATION "A simulated vessel ? ooding can help teams work together to solve the challenge using different systems on the bridge." – Jussi Siltanen, Lead, "The gami? cation of Product Marketing, learning makes it fun." Safety Solutions at NAPA – Captain Pradeep Chawla, Founder, MarinePALS Image
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 35SIMULATION e have a close relationship with tech- Realism is prized beyond immersive, photo-realistic visu- nology, evidenced by, for example, als, and providers are introducing increasingly accurate func- the phones we are estimated to un- tionality. FORCE Technology’s upcoming DEN-Mark2 math- lock around
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 23offshore wind; and the foreign ? ag Maersk supply WTIV at Seatrium Singapore, together with U.S. ? ag feeder ATBs for transportation and installation of the Empire Wind. Three newbuild SOVs and three conversions/retro? ts were award- ed, too, and 22 CTVs were also announced. The ? rst US rock installa
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 28tug delivered to Crowley from Master Boat Builders (Coden, Ala.) in January 2024, and Hydrogen One, a towboat to be powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, under construction at Intracoastal Iron Works in Bourg, La. The vessel will join the ? eet of ? nancial own- er Maritime Partners, who have placed
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 48Index page MR Feb2024:MN INDEX PAGE 2/8/2024 11:05 AM Page 1 ANCHORS & CHAINS MILITARY SONAR SYSTEMS tel:+44 (0) 1752 723330, [email protected] , www.siliconsensing.com Anchor Marine & Supply, INC., 6545 Lindbergh Houston, Massa Products Corporation, 280 Lincoln Street, SONAR TRANSDUCERS
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 36, shipowners can move further towards the and well over 100 in its production pipeline. Most commonly IMO’s 2050. They can test out energy storage and fuel cell to date, orders have been for 174,000cbm LNG carriers. These equipment, he says, and see what bene? ts they provide in vessels typically have two
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