....100 vessels from its existing fleet and planned new builds. For a fixed low cost, XpressLink provides vessels around the globe with access to both Ku-band VSAT and L-band FleetBroadband services in a bundled package. “We evaluated the providers and made a purely commercial decision about XpressLink from Inmarsat,” said Kjell S. Langva of Frontline Management.
Ship Equip—along with the Company's other subsidiaries Stratos Global and Segovia IP—was rebranded as Inmarsat at the start of this year. The rebranding means that Inmarsat can now offer customers direct and unrivalled expertise in a range of cross-platform mobile and fixed satellite, microwave, terrestrial and wireless technologies.
Pictured: A Frontline tanker. Frontline is a world leader in the transportation of crude oil.
XpressLink meets the increasing need for high-speed global communications today, while building a bridge to better and faster communications in the future. It comes with a guaranteed free upgrade to the 50Mbps capability of Inmarsat’s Ka-band Global Xpress™ when the service becomes operational from 2013. According to Frontline, XpressLink’s cost benefits and fully redundant capability—which includes FleetBroadband data usage—along with Inmarsat’s service availability were central to its decision. All these are delivered with the outstanding quality, global coverage and seamless mobility that Inmarsat's customers expect. The installation of XpressLink on Frontline’s vessels will start immediately and continue through 2012. Inmarsat company information link.