Internet connectivity on vessels

For work or for pleasure, the captain and crew members all want a reliable internet connection when they set sail. Good internet connectivity can provide enhanced navigational capabilities, operational efficiency and safety, but also very important, the crew members can regularly keep in contact with family & friends, which improves their social well-being when they are a long time away from their loved ones!

Hybrid solution
Cellular connectivity, also known as 3G, 4G or 4G+ (LTE-A) and Wifi are fast and very cost-effective. With coverage near to the coast and offshore, they are perfect complementary to VSAT, Iridium and Inmarsat satellite services.

This raises a need for a router to monitor and manage these wireless internet connections – to use the fastest and cheapest internet connections available, while switching seamlessly between them as they come in and out of coverage. This is what the Peplink Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) routers, are engineered for.

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Use Wifi, cellular alongside VSAT and Iridium or Inmarsat mobile satellite services for maximum network agility and flexibility. We can support the use of multiple (up to 18) internet WAN links of different types from different providers on a single device giving you every possible choice of the most commercially appropriate internet access technologies for your situation.

Peplink routers actively monitors your internet connections. If an internet service fails due to an outage or defective hardware, Peplink automatically steers traffic to the other available internet connections, so you will stay connected.

Peplink gives you the opportunity to have faster internet connection at a lower cost by using every possible internet connection.

With Peplink you have the flexibility to configure your network the way you need it to be. If your situation needs bandwidth we can apply bonding technologies, and for unbreakable connectivity we use the multiple internet connections for failover purposes.

And all of this can be easily managed through the cloud based platform InControl2. Via this platform you can control the usage of internet connectivity, so there is no bill shock afterwards.

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Without a good LTE/4G antenna, no stable, reliable high-quality connection can be made and maintained. The Poynting maritime antennas are a crucial element in the total solution of wireless connectivity. The antennas ensures there is a stable and reliable connection, regardless of the frequency at which this transmission takes place.

The article is published by courtesy of Frontier BV.