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FleetBroadBand Suppliers
FleetBroadband is Inmarsat's maritime satellite broadband, an always-on link that gives a ship voice and IP data almost anywhere it trades outside the poles. It runs over the L-band satellites, which keeps it working in weather that degrades higher-frequency systems, and that reliability is why FleetBroadband is still fitted across the fleet - a primary link on smaller vessels and a dependable backup to VSAT on larger ones. FleetBroadband suppliers provide the terminals and antennas that make the connection, from makers such as Cobham Sailor, Intellian, JRC, and Furuno.
Terminals and What They Deliver
A FleetBroadband installation is two boxes and an antenna. The above-deck antenna, stabilized to hold the satellite as the ship moves, comes in sizes that set the data rate: the smaller FB250 for basic voice and data, the larger FB500 for the higher throughput a busy bridge and crew need. Below deck sits the terminal itself, with its handset and interfaces into the ship's systems. The model is chosen against the data the vessel actually uses, since a bigger antenna and terminal cost more both to buy and to run, and siting the antenna and commissioning the set are jobs for FleetBroadband services rather than the crew.
Hardware Is Only Half of It
Buying a terminal does not by itself put a ship online: the hardware has to be activated on airtime through an Inmarsat service provider, and the two are bought separately. On a modern bridge the terminal is often paired with a higher-throughput VSAT system that carries the daily traffic, with FleetBroadband held as the always-available backup that keeps working when the VSAT beam drops. Either way the terminal is a type-approved radio, so it is matched to the vessel and its approvals rather than bought on price alone.
A terminal is chosen at newbuild, when a comms package is refreshed, or as a like-for-like replacement of an ageing unit. What decides it is the data the ship really uses and the antenna size the mast can carry, so those two figures are the place to start before comparing the FleetBroadband suppliers below. Where a fitted unit needs only a part, FleetBroadband spare parts cover that side.
Year Founded: 2018
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