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SAILOR 60/90 Satellite TV – Wired Ocean S-Box
Document Name: SAILOR Satellite TV – Wired Ocean S-Box Revision: I
Introduction: This document describes how the Wired Ocean S-Box can be interfaced with a SAILOR Satellite TV
antenna and a SAILOR FleetBroadband or Fleet terminal to provide ships with fast, cost-effective
broadband. Wired Ocean’s services make broadband at sea affordable.
As ship communications move into the broadband era, the usage pattern changes from email to
internet. Typical internet use consists of relatively small amounts of data (such as webpage or search
requests) being sent, with much larger amounts of data (for example web pages and internet content)
being received. While mobile satellite services are suitable for transmitting the relatively small
amounts of sent data, they are not so well suited for transmitting the much larger amounts of
received data. Their limited capacity (bandwidth) results in high usage costs and relatively slow
transmission speeds.
Wired Ocean uses a ‘hybrid’ technology that integrates mobile satellites and television broadcast
satellites to deliver high speed maritime internet. The broadcast satellites are used to deliver data to
ships at increased speeds and greatly reduced costs, while mobile satellites continue to be used to
send data from ships. Equipment costs are minimized by making use of the communications and
television equipment on board vessels.
Figure 1: Wired Ocean Broadband System Overview
Typical Users: ► Commercial shipping
► Fishery
► Offshore
► Yachts
Product Description: ► WIRED OCEAN S-BOX
Ship communications can be upgraded for affordable
broadband by installing an S-Box with a SAILOR Satellite TV
antenna and FleetBroadband or Fleet terminal. The S-Box
seamlessly integrates Wired Ocean’s shore to ship service
with the vessel’s communications systems. The S-Box has
everything needed to make internet connection easy, safe
and secure, without installing any software on the vessel’s
computers.
► WIRED OCEAN SERVICE
Wired Ocean’s services are 'always on' and are designed to enhance 'always-on' mobile services
such as Inmarsat FleetBroadband and MPDS. At 512kbps Wired Ocean’s shore to ship service is
many times faster than most mobile satellite services. To complement this outright speed, Wired
Ocean also incorporates state of the art data optimisation at its network operations hub and in the S-
Box, so that data can be delivered even more quickly and cost-effectively.
The service is ideal for high volume applications such as internet browsing, downloading email with
attachments, obtaining electronic manuals and weather and navigation data for bridge and critical
systems. It’s also well suited for crew internet needs such as email, news, sport and web browsing.
Wired Ocean offers a range of fixed price and volume based service plans. Advanced optimisation
systems compress, accelerate and cache data so that the actual volume of billable data is reduced.
Furthermore, since internet users are typically receiving much more information than they are
sending, the majority of the ship’s broadband is using Wired Ocean’s economical service. Ships can
now benefit from significantly increased broadband usage without breaking the budget.
Figure 2: Data Usage Cost Comparison
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'Always on' service, combined with fixed price service plans, means that ships don't pay by the time
connected or the volume of data received. This makes budgeting easier and relieves concerns that
large downloads or unexpected software upgrades will lead to unacceptable costs.
NOTE: Your ship to shore communication will be billed separately by your Inmarsat Airtime provider.
The Wired Ocean Broadband system is currently supported on three satellites:
► Hotbird 13°E
► Eurobird 28°E
► Thor 1°W
See the Coverage Areas for the satellites in Figure 3 below:
Location Simultaneous Coverage
Television
28° E Astra & Eurobird
Variety of
English
language &
Middle Eastern
Channels
13° E Hotbird
Variety of
European and
Middle Eastern
Channels
1° W Thor
Variety of Nordic
channels
Figure 3: Coverage Areas
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Wired Ocean E-mail mailto:[email protected]
contact details: Phone +44 (0) 20 7060 1049
Web http://www.wiredocean.com
contact details: Thrane & Thrane Distributors http://www.thrane.com/Contact/Distributors.aspx
Tested on products SAILOR 60 Software version: 1.5.2
and satellites: Satellites Hotbird at 13°E, Eurobird at 28°E (Co-located with Astra) and Thor
at 1°W
Instructions: The tests of the Wired Ocean Broadband were conducted using a SAILOR 60 Satellite TV antenna
for downlink. And the uplink was tested both with SAILOR 500 FleetBroadband (with Standard Data
service) and SAILOR Fleet77 (with MPDS service). See Figure 4 below showing the system overview
of the Wired Ocean Broadband Ship Installation with the SAILOR FleetBroadband.
Figure 4: Wired Ocean Broadband Ship Installation
The SAILOR Satellite TV antenna was configured to receive signal from one of the supported
satellites using the keypad and display on the SAILOR TV Control box.
The Wired Ocean S-Box was configured using its built-in web application. The S-Box web application
was reached by entering the IP address of the S-Box (default http://192.168.1.1) in the web browser.
See Figure 5 below showing the main page of the web application.
The Wired Ocean Broadband S-Box downlink (shore to ship) was configured to use the same TV
satellite as the SAILOR 60 Satellite TV antenna was pointed to. See Figure 5 below.
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Figure 5: Connect Page
The Wired Ocean S-Box has built-in uplink (ship to shore) drivers for both SAILOR FleetBroadband
and for Inmarsat MPDS. The SAILOR FleetBroadband driver uses Ethernet interface of the SAILOR
FleetBroadband terminal and the Inmarsat MPDS driver uses the serial interface of the SAILOR
Fleet77.
The selection of the uplink driver was easy to select from the SETTINGS > UPLINK page. See
Figure 6 below showing settings for the SAILOR FleetBroadband:
Figure 6: Uplink Configuration for SAILOR FleetBroadband
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Please configure as shown on Figure 6 above, but enter the right APN supported by your Inmarsat
Service Provider for the SAILOR FleetBroadband.
The SAILOR FleetBroadband profile can be used with all the SAILOR FleetBroadband terminals
such as: SAILOR 150, SAILOR 250 and SAILOR 500 FleetBroadband.
See Figure 7 below showing settings for the SAILOR Fleet:
Figure 7: Uplink Configuration for SAILOR Fleet
The Inmarsat MPDS profile can be used with all the SAILOR Fleet and Fleet+ terminals: SAILOR
Fleet33, SAILOR Fleet55 and SAILOR Fleet77.
After configuration of the uplink and downlink the Connect button on the Connect page was pressed
and registering on the Inmarsat network was initiated by the Wired Ocean S-Box.
The whole registration process takes about 15 seconds to complete and the system is then online on
the Internet.
Tested: Many tests were performed on the three currently supported satellites and the downlink bandwidth
was verified to be >400 kbps.
Tests were performed with FleetBroadband (Standard data) and SAILOR Fleet77 (MPDS).
Following tests were performed:
► Web browsing
► FTP upload and download
► SMTP
► POP3
► Cisco VPN
Information in this document is subject to change without notice and
does not represent a commitment on the part of Thrane & Thrane A/S.
© 2010 Thrane & Thrane A/S. All rights reserved. Printed in Denmark.
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