ShipSat: Affordable Maritime Internet via Satellite

Framingham, MA, May 27, 2010 --(PR.com)-- ShipSat is the only complete managed maritime broadband solution that provides:

Hardware. Trac Phone V7, FB 150, ShipSat Gateway
Airtime. Unlimited Ku-band mini VSAT, 50Mb FleetBroadband
Value-added Products. ShipMail, World-Link’s email application and ShipForms, World-Link’s award winning electronic port of entry forms and the impeccable 24/7 managed communications services.

This is the all-in-one maritime broadband solution from only one satellite service provider: World-Link Communications. The Company, a veteran of the maritime industry, is able to offer the all-in-one solution at an affordable fixed monthly rate of $1,850. After the required three year contract, the customer owns the hardware.

The ShipSat gateway is the core component of this Ku, L-band broadband solution that acts as a least cost router and firewall, determining determining least cost routing between Ku-Band and L-Band.

With the gateway following the Ethernet standard for vessel networking, it’s possible to set up virtual networks onboard, separating traffic between seafarers and the main office. ShipSat also serves as a firewall, separating crew-based web traffic from office web traffic, to strictly control the type of Internet traffic that is accessible by the network. The onboard firewall blocks all unwanted traffic from the ship’s computers to the Internet.

Part of ShipSat software is the Internet cafe, where crew members can use World-Link’s prepaid web browsing card, CrewMail. In this way, crew based web traffic is effectively separated from office web traffic.

“We are sure that our ShipSat managed broadband solution is an incentive for ship owners and managers to adopt broadband quickly investing in this new technology. And, finally seafarers can use the Internet to stay connected as if they are ashore,” said Asad Salameh, World –Link Communications, President.

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About World-Link Communications, Inc.
World-Link Communications is an award-winning provider of customizable, maritime satellite communications solutions. The Company, founded in 1989, is based in Framingham, Massachusetts and has offices around the world.

ISO 9001:2008 Certified and serving more than 800 hundred ships, the organization delivers maritime satellite services combining proprietary acceleration, compression and network optimization technologies that have won the trust of ship owners and managers worldwide. The company recently achieved the Gold Service Provider status in the Inmarsat’s mobile satellite operators’ new accreditation scheme.

World-Link Communications is committed to improving maritime satellite communications services while meeting their customers’ need for faster, more reliable and cost effective services.