{"id":62317,"date":"2019-06-04T21:51:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T13:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/fmc-globalsat-provides-connectivity-for-american-queen-steamboat\/"},"modified":"2019-06-04T21:51:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T13:51:14","slug":"fmc-globalsat-provides-connectivity-for-american-queen-steamboat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/fmc-globalsat-provides-connectivity-for-american-queen-steamboat\/","title":{"rendered":"FMC GlobalSat Provides Connectivity for American Queen Steamboat"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>FMC GlobalSat<\/strong>&nbsp;will provide its 4G\/Long-Term Satellite (LTSAT) connectivity solution aboard all four <strong>American Queen Steamboat<\/strong>&nbsp;vessels, helping to enable internet broadband connectivity for more than one-thousand passengers on a daily basis. The system is currently operational aboard the flagship vessel American Queen and is being deployed aboard the American Duchess, American Empress, and will be installed aboard the American Countess shortly.<\/p>\n<p>The American Queen Steamboat Company operates a fleet of paddlewheel riverboats along the Mississippi river and its tributaries, as well as on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest. Additionally,&nbsp;FMC GlobalSat employs the <strong>Kymeta<\/strong> flat-panel satellite antenna to help enhance satellite connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor years, commercial maritime operators have been forced to depend on extremely unreliable terrestrial coverage or expensive satellite connectivity to achieve even a baseline level of data and voice communications to satisfy staff and customer needs,\u201d said Emmanuel Cotrel, chief executive officer of FMC GlobalSat. \u201cOur approach has been to create an intelligent service that automatically connects users with the best available bandwidth option for a particular location. Through our solution, our customers can receive more reliable coverage\u2014with greater security\u2014at a far lower cost.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FMC GlobalSat&nbsp;will provide its 4G\/Long-Term Satellite (LTSAT) connectivity solution aboard all four American Queen Steamboat&nbsp;vessels, helping to enable internet broadband connectivity for more than one-thousand passengers on a daily basis. The system is currently operational aboard the flagship vessel American Queen and is being deployed aboard the American Duchess, American Empress, and will be installed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}