Wired Ocean

Wired Ocean Broadband

Why Wired Ocean?

As ship communications move into the broadband era, the usage pattern changes from email to internet. Typical internet use consists of relatively small amounts of data (such as webpage or search requests) being sent, with much larger amounts of data (for example web pages and internet content) being received. While mobile satellite services are suitable for transmitting the relatively small amounts of sent data, they are not well suited for transmitting the much larger amounts of received data. Their limited capacity (bandwidth) results in high usage costs and relatively slow transmission speeds.

An innovative solution

Wired Ocean uses a ‘hybrid’ technology that integrates mobile satellites and television broadcast satellites to deliver high speed maritime internet. Data speeds are increased and usage costs are greatly reduced by using high capacity broadcast satellites to deliver data to ships and mobile satellites to send data from ships. Equipment costs are minimized by making use of the communications and television equipment on board vessels.

Ideal for marine internet applications

The service is ideal for high volume applications such as internet browsing, downloading email with attachments, obtaining electronic manuals and weather and navigation data for bridge and critical systems. It’s also well suited for crew internet needs such as email, news, sport and web browsing.

Easy installation

Ship communications can be upgraded for affordable broadband by installing a Wired Ocean S-Box (Satellite Broadband Server). It seamlessly integrates Wired Ocean’s shore to ship service with the vessel’s communications systems. The S-Box has everything needed to make internet connection easy, safe and secure, without installing any software on the vessel’s computers.

Commitment to customer support

Every installation is backed by customer support that incorporates remote monitoring and diagnostics. Wired Ocean’s support staff has access to real time information on the performance of each vessel’s communications and similar information is available to fleet managers via Wired Ocean’s intranet.