The Global VSAT Forum (GVF) and United Kingdom Event Management Partners (UK-EMP) have announced that the offer of free conference registration for relevant vertical market professionals originally introduced for their Oil & Gas Series conferences will be continued for the next in the series of industry-specific communications conferences – the Broadband Maritime South East Asia: New Communications Networking Offshore & the High Seas Conference (BMSEAC) – taking place 23rd to 24th February 2010, at the Marina Mandarin hotel in Singapore. For more information go to: http://www.uk-emp.co.uk/MA2.Sg.2010/
The Conference, the second in the Series for the Maritime vertical to focus on the South East Asia region, will feature particular attention on the following key subject areas:
(1) Key hardware technology developments in the design and deployment of state-of-the-art stabilised satellite antennas which enable effective satellite tracking and maintenance of signal integrity as vessels pitch and roll, whilst maintaining constant reliability through robustness and rugged design against challenging weather conditions;
(2) New service provisioning, delivering ‘always on’ broadband applications with Quality of Service guarantees that go beyond basic ‘pay-by-the-minute’ service types and which facilitate greater predictability in mission critical delivery, as well as accuracy in the calculation of the cost of communications and, therefore, improved corporate overheads budgeting; and,
(3) Access to applications and networks: meeting today’s imperative for constant, seamless and cost-effective connectivity to ensure optimised exploitation of physical maritime assets, maximised passenger satisfaction, maximized crew welfare, and optimized navigational safety.
The first Broadband Maritime South East Asia Conference, held in February 2009, was the first departure of the Global VSAT Forum (GVF)/UK Event Management Partners (UK-EMP) Partnership beyond the communications conferences it has organized for the Oil & Gas vertical market since 2006. After eight conferences for the energy industry, as well as one for the maritime vertical, comes the 2nd Annual, Broadband Maritime South East Asia Conference (BMSEAC). BMSEAC will examine the widespread deployment of advanced communications technologies and services that are constantly accessible anywhere at sea.
Moreover, the conference agenda will look to the fact that whilst there has already been much recent improvement in the availability of advanced communications at sea, it is only now that the maritime communications environment is progressing fully, from a mainly narrowband communications arena, and into the broadband age, exploiting the increased synergies of advances in satellite equipment technologies and the availability and accessibility of new bandwidth across, and linking, all the world’s oceans.
For more information go to: http://www.uk-emp.co.uk/MA2.Sg.2010/ or e-mail: paul.stahl@uk-emp.co.uk
