Digital options firm Marlink has partnered with LEO web operator Eutelsat OneWeb to offer digital connectivity options to cruise firm Ponant.
Ponant will deploy the Eutelsat OneWeb service on its polar exploration icebreaker Le Commandant Charcot, offering company and crew with excessive throughput and low latency web entry throughout the vessel’s itinerary.
Leveraging Marlink’s experience in sensible hybrid networks, the bandwidth delivered by Eutelsat OneWeb will allow Ponant’s seamless collaboration between the ship’s bridge, engineering crew and shore groups. Guests can even take pleasure in higher connectivity and entry streaming video or social media.
Marlink has deployed an entire hybrid community resolution onboard Le Commandant Charcot, combining GEO VSAT, LEO providers and 4G/5G mobile providers.
Based on a Service Level Agreement (SLA) mannequin, Ponant has service ranges outlined by Committed Information Rate (CIR) and Maximum Information Rate (MIR). A totally encrypted community makes use of a layered service method to make sure full privateness whereas a number of service profiles can segregate crew and operational site visitors on the identical terminal.
With 634 satellites now in orbit, the Eutelsat Group’s LEO constellation is full and totally operational right down to 25 levels latitude. The firm is continuous to progress the roll out of its floor station infrastructure which can allow international maritime providers. Eutelsat OneWeb is promoting connectivity providers to the maritime business, by way of its specialist maritime distribution companions equivalent to Marlink.
Carole Plessy, VP Europe and Maritime, Eutelsat OneWeb, mentioned: “This is a new generation of broadband services for maritime, powered by LEO satellites to create a truly global connectivity platform to bring fibre to the high seas.”
