Expanded Marlink Satellite Network
Marlink has added satellite capacity for its yachting customers in the Caribbean and Mediterranean using its High Speed Zones service, ensuring that yachts have even more access to the highest quality communications services, for fast internet and high quality voice calling.
Marlink’s High Speed Zones in the Caribbean and Mediterranean provide unprecedented levels of bandwidth for the most demanding connectivity applications, such as 4K TV streaming on luxury vessels. The Zones provides the ability to boost internet speeds on short notice for fixed periods up to 20Mbps down and 2Mbps up, without the need to add new hardware on board. They also provide full flexibility for bandwidth requests in the 100Mbps range, with advanced notice to allow for delivery of new hardware if required.
The additional High Speed Zones capacity builds on the unique service for luxury vessels, which has been in demand since its launch in November 2016. Additional capacity ensures higher availability and greater redundancy with a new satellite and a new beam joining the Sealink network, ensuring even higher Quality of Service for reliable internet access and voice calling, and high-end IP applications in the most popular yachting destinations all year round. The newly added capacity increases diversity in Marlink’s network covering the key yachting regions, ensuring that a link is always available and that communication services work seamlessly.