Marine Electronics & Communications

Graceful roaming maintains onboard network connection

Taken from: Marine Electronics & Communications February/March 2010


Automatic roaming between different satellites can significantly improve the performance of onboard networks, especially when dealing with overlapping VSAT footprints or blending FleetBroadband and VSAT services It has been estimated that the capital cost of a network now only accounts for some 10-20 per cent of the total cost of ownership (TCO). This means that the majority of the cost is operational and therefore ongoing. To improve efficiency and reduce costs, network managers have to simpli....

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