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ORBCOMM User Savings Roar into Regulated Marine Satellite PositioningThe sovereign and treaty regulated marine market represents a breakthrough for the rapidly rolling-out Orbcomm system, and begins an era of lowered costs for fishing vessel operators who have been almost completely restricted to Inmarsat ‘C based products. The 30,000 plus ORBCOMM systems placed in service in the last year or so are primarily in new markets, created by the new capabilities of the ORBCOMM system. This phenomenal growth rate brings ORBCOMM to approximate equality with Inmarsat in the total number of installed satellite communicators; yet this high-margin regulated section of the marine market has been dominated by Inmarsat. Fishing vessel owners chose ORBCOMM in Chile because of the capacity to develop future applications on the equipment and the reduced cost of system hardware and monthly bandwidth charges. Per Pat Waggaman, Managing Director of Marine Imaging Systems, “With this strong entry into the Chilean VMS, we begin to bring to regulated marine users the strong ORBCOMM package of low-cost technological benefits.” The Chilean VMS was a combined effort of Orbcomm and several of its South American partners. Marimsys provided system level administrative software and charting, capable of managing vessel positioning along the 40 degrees of latitude of the Chilean EEZ, for 1,000 vessels at 1 minute intervals. The Marimsys 6 Byte Report © was a significant element in reducing bandwidth usage and lowering user costs, as was the Marimsys Modem - VMS. DAMOS SudAmerica at the Southern Cone level, and ENTEL at the national level, provided significant hardware expertise and support. Founded in 1995 in Vina del Mar, Chile, Marine Imaging Systems is a worldwide leader in bathymetry, and nautical charting software. Today these products map seamounts thousands of miles from shore, provide fishermen with an unexcelled ability to precision trawl the deep, and precisely position vessels on Marimsys charting systems. Marimsys communications products aid in enterprise resource planning functions by synchronizing remote “off the backbone” users with head office personnel. For more information on Marimsys products: www.marimsys.com Contact: Pat Waggaman Office +56 32 815005 Mobile +56 9 243 7868 waggaman@marimsys.com |
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