KVH Industries,Inc has actually revealed that it has actually delivered its 10,000 th VSAT satellite interactions system. This is the most recent landmark for a business whose background of development in the maritime satellite interactions sector started in 2007, when KVH presented the TracPhone ® V7, the initial maritime 60 centimeters VSAT terminal, as well as the mini-VSAT Broadbandsm solution.
Since that time, KVH has actually come to be the marketplace share leader for maritime VSAT terminals (Source: Euroconsult, Prospects for Maritime SATCOM, 2019, market share VSAT systems), as well as today KVH offers high-speed connection, voice solution, IoT capacities, as well as material to business vessels as well as recreation private yachts all over the world.
“We set out to make satellite communications reliable, cost effective, and more accessible to seafarers through innovations in technology, satellite services, and business models,” claims Martin Kits van Heyningen, KVH president.
“The accelerating adoption of our TracPhone VSAT systems and connectivity delivered by our high-throughput satellite (HTS) network reflects the demand for the affordable airtime, fast data speeds, network security, IoT proactive monitoring, and value-added services that we deliver. The ability to offer a fully integrated solution, which we see as the KVH Advantage, is desirable both to leisure boaters who wish to remain connected to friends and family on shore as well as the commercial industry in which the connected ship is rapidly becoming a reality.”
KVH makes a full line of innovative HTS antenna systems created for a wide variety of private yacht as well as vessel kinds. The 37 centimeters TracPhone V3-HTS is the fastest ultra-compact maritime VSAT antenna as well as the 2019 recipient of the National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) Product of Excellence honor, while the TracPhone V7-HTS, a 60 centimeters size Ku- band antenna, is additionally a previous NMEA Product of Excellence honor recipient.
In March 2019, KVH presented the TracPhone V11-HTS, the globe’s fastest 1 meter Ku/ C-band maritime VSAT antenna, created to supply globally information rates as rapid as 20 Mbps down/3 Mbps up. Both the TracPhone V7-HTS as well as V11-HTS provide a distinct dual-channel arrangement that offers synchronised high-speed as well as limitless usage information networks for optimum versatility.
All 3 TracPhone HTS-series systems are created for KVH’s mini-VSAT Broadband HTS network, which makes use of Intelsat’s FlexMaritime solution to supply multi-layered Ku- band insurance coverage, making it possible for vessels to see numerous HTS as well as large beam of light satellites for optimal schedule of broadband solution.
KVH’s VSAT systems additionally include the Integrated CommBoxTM Modem (ICM), a structured belowdecks device that changes the requirement for a shelf packed with elements as well as incorporates all antenna control, onboard network monitoring, as well as modem features in one tiny device. The ICM additionally obtains onboard information, enjoyment, as well as procedures material sent out by means of KVH’s trademarked IP-MobileCast ™ multicast material shipment solution.
KVH’s technologies in maritime connection consist of turbulent company offerings such as AgilePlans ®, a subscription-based CaaS design for the business maritime industry, presented in 2017. The AgilePlans program, which uses KVH’s international connection, VSAT equipment, information, enjoyment, as well as training material, as well as cost-free setup in as several as 4,000 ports as well as areas all over the world, is showing exceptionally appealing to international fleets.
It has actually been the driving pressure behind the business’s extraordinary development in VSAT device implementations. In the 2nd quarter of 2019, it made up greater than 69% of KVH’s overall business maritime VSAT deliveries as well as aided drive an 11% rise in VSAT deliveries contrasted to the exact same duration in 2018.
KVH is a mobile innovation pioneer that offers connection options for business maritime, recreation marine, as well as land mobile applications on vessels as well as automobiles, consisting of the acclaimed TracPhone as well as TracVision ® product, the international mini-VSAT Broadband network, as well as AgilePlans. KVH Media Group offers information, sporting activities, as well as enjoyment material with such brand names as MOVIElink ™, TVlink ™, NEWSlink ™ as well as SPORTSlink ™.
Sea News, October 29