Offshore Microwave Links
High-throughput ship-to-shore and ship-to-ship links without satellite airtime.
A vessel working a fixed area near shore does not always need satellite bandwidth. A tracking 5.x GHz microwave link covers up to 100 km ship-to-shore at 200–300 Mbps, with no recurring airtime charge and lower latency than a satellite hop.
The system is built around an auto-tracking mobile station on the vessel and a fixed station ashore. It also supports a self-organizing mesh between two mobile stations, which is the configuration used when two vessels need to work as a pair.
The constraint is line of sight and range. For a fleet that works the same fishing ground or a port approach, a microwave link is usually the cheapest high-bandwidth option; for ocean passages, satellite remains the only option.
What is in the scope
- Shipborne auto-tracking microwave antenna (5.x GHz)
- Shore station or second mobile station
- LTE point-to-point / mesh radios