Have just returned from the second (and last) day of the Digital Ship Cyprus 2006 conference. I\’ve been attending both days and have seen many interesting stuff. I am not much familiar with ship communication, but I found many interesting things there, and also learned a lot.
There were a lot of speeches and presentations from many companies. The most bright ones are from Inmarsat (no doubt) and Connexion by Boeing. All other presentations were very good as well, but there too many of them and they all will be published at Digital Ship web site.
I have also attended a small Inmarsat training (2 hours) where they made an introduction to the satellite communication including the history of Inmarsat and the packages they offered and still offer. Specifications of those as well as current projects and future possibilities. We also had a chance to try some of their new equipment from the mobile series and I would tell it was quite nice.
Also I would like to mention the PrimeTel company whom I communicate a lot with and I got some nice ideas (as well as a couple of presents) from. Nice people.
Anyway, I\’ve met a lot of interesting people and learned a lot and I hope that will get more into the topic since there are some interesting points in it and it can be useful for me.