Global Marine Networks… New Services At Sea (SATCOM)

[SatNews] RedPort Global, a satellite network management solution suite…

….for maritime and offshore satellite broadband users and distributors, has just been released by the Company. RedPort Global offers an array of satellite voice and data services that will save up to 80 percent of satellite airtime while giving more utility for any maritime satellite voice or data user. Features include…

• Prepaid VoIP voice service giving up to 25 minutes of talk time from each megabyte of data
• Prepaid email and Internet services for crew morale, passenger sales, or ship’s operations
• Data compression, caching and control
• Least-cost routing, failover and load-balancing
• Firewall filtering by MAC or TCP/IP address and/or port number provide advanced controls as well as Skype and Adobe Flash blocking
• On-board management – Access and control a ship’s IT network as if on the ship.
• Weather and Oceanographic data
• GPS tracking
• Credit-card processing

RedPort Global services work together with GMN webXaccelerator (wXa) satellite routers. Concurrent with the launch of RedPort Global services, GMN is launchingtwo new wXa satellite routers. The original webXaccelerator satellite router was launched in October, 2010, to give users of satellite data systems unprecedented control of their installations, while providing firewall, compression and caching service. GMN has received orders for more than 700 webXaccelerator satellite routers. By launching RedPort Global, GMN is offering new services including prepaid VOIP calling for passengers and crew morale, and email and web access for Apple iOS products including the iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone products via WiFi when used with the award-winning XGate satellite phone email acceleration service.