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28 January 2010: HiSeasNet on
Intelsat IS 707, providing service for 4 ships in the
Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans, has now increased
the shore-to-ship bandwidth from 128 kbps to 512 kbps.
10 December 2009: Steve Foley will present
the talk "Improved data capacity using bandwidth acceleration
in HiSeasNet" at the upcoming 2009 Fall AGU. The talk
is on Monday, 14 December in IN13C, Moscone West, in
the session "Sensing, Networking and Fusing the Data
I."
21 October 2009: HiSeasNet engineer
Steve Foley will present "Advanced communications
for remote ocean platforms in the coming 15 years," at
the 2010 Ocean Sciences meeting. The abstract can be
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R/V Endeavor with SeaTel antenna being
installed; for more information, click
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HiSeasNet is
a satellite communications network designed specifically to provide
continuous Internet connectivity for oceanographic research ships
and platforms. Access to the Internet is an integral part of
nearly every research lab and office on land; extending this
access to oceanographic ships--our seagoing laboratories--will
broadly impact seagoing research activities. For the ships, HiSeasNet
will provide:
- Transmission of hot data in real-time to shore-side collaborators;
- Basic communications-email, voice and video teleconferencing
for scientists, engineers and crew at sea;
- Tools for real-time educational interactions between shipboard
scientists, teachers and the classroom, as well as informal
science and other education and outreach activities.
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