Vizada has launched its SkyFile C Store & Push service, to offer customers new data reporting and polling options, including VMS (Vessel Monitoring System), LRIT (Long Range Identification &Tracking) and FleetNet capabilities.
The system aims to assist shipping companies in adhering to international maritime law with respect to tracking, such as International Maritime Organisation regulations which stipulate that a vessel must send a position report every six hours, and that this report must in turn be delivered to the data centre in less than 15 minutes (or seven minutes in European countries).
SkyFile-C Store & Push runs over a dedicated platform, developed by Vizada at its teleport in Aussaguel, France, as part of a major upgrade to its Inmarsat-C infrastructure.
In addition to providing greater capacity for data reporting traffic such as VMS and LRIT, the platform enables all data reports transmitted from vessels to be stored in a database at the gateway.
In case of network failure during transmission, the reports can be protected and forwarded to data centres at a later stage once the network issues have been resolved.
Data reports can be delivered over a number of different networks, including FTP and IP, to cater for the varying requirements of the parties involved in the reporting process, such as data centres, shipping companies, flag states, and local regulators.
"As monitoring and reporting traffic increases significantly, it is important for mobile satellite providers to step up to the challenge and ensure the most reliable and flexible service for both shipping companies and data centres," said Jean-Marc Duc, Inmarsat-C product manager at Vizada.
"The major investments we have made in our Inmarsat-C infrastructure over the past few years are a proof of our strong commitment to providing shipping companies end-users with most reliable way of conforming to IMO regulations."
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