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Broadband Maritime Conference New Communications Networking Offshore & the High Seas Marina Mandarin, Raffles Boulevard, Marina Square, Singapore, Feb. 18 & 19 2009 |
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Images Provided by Henri Schmit, Hontes, Aleksey Bakaleev, CJ Photo, Gary Blakely & Sergio Jerez |
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Post Conference Communiqué Issued by the GVF (Thursday, 26 February 2009. London)
The Global VSAT Forum (GVF) Broadband Maritime: New Communications Networking Offshore & the High-Seas 2009 (BM 2009) conference took place in Singapore over 18th & 19th February, with Inmarsat, Intelsat, KT Corporation, Comtech EF Data and Sea Mobile as sponsors and Marine BizTV the official broadcast partner.
The conference was the first for the GVF/UK-EMP conference partnership to address the subject of broadband satellite communications in the maritime environment and has now become part of a stable of events which will continue to have a major focus on another important vertical market. Indeed, the next three events in the conference series ‘Oil & Gas Communications’ will take place during the remainder of 2009, in Aberdeen, 12-13 May, in Abu Dhabi during the first week of July, and in Kuala Lumpur in November.
The conference recognised that the widespread deployment of advanced communications technologies and services that are constantly accessible anywhere at sea had, until quite recently, lagged. Clearly this was the situation no longer, and the reasons behind this changed situation were examined in the context of a three-fold focus encompassing the principal, and inter-related, elements of:
(1) Key hardware technology developments in the design and deployment of state-of-the-art stabilised satellite antennas which enable effective satellite tracking and maintenance of signal integrity as vessels pitch and roll, whilst maintaining constant reliability through robustness and rugged design against challenging weather conditions.
(2) New service provisioning, delivering ‘always on’ broadband applications with Quality of Service guarantees that go beyond basic ‘pay-by-the-minute’ service types and which facilitate greater predictability in mission critical delivery, as well as accuracy in the calculation of the cost of communications and, therefore, improved corporate overheads budgeting.
(3) Access to applications and networks: meeting today’s imperative for constant, seamless and cost-effective connectivity to ensure optimised exploitation of physical maritime assets, maximized passenger satisfaction, maximized crew welfare, and optimised navigational safety.
Throughout BM 2009, the agenda looked to the fact that whilst there has already been much recent improvement in the availability of advanced communications at sea, it is only now that the maritime communications environment is progressing fully, from a mainly narrowband communications arena, and into the broadband age, exploiting the increased synergies of advances in satellite equipment technologies and the availability and accessibility of new bandwidth across, and linking, all the world’s oceans.
The full conference agenda, including download links for the presentations, can be accessed through the program page links above. The conference proceedings were recorded by Marine BizTV, the world's first global, free to air maritime channel, and Official Broadcast Partner to BM 2009. The conference video will be broadcast over its SatTV channel and subsequently via webcast on MarineBiz WebTV. A link to the webcast will appear shortly on the home-page of this site.
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