{"id":67179,"date":"2017-09-28T23:40:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T15:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/carnival-to-offer-new-wi-fi-service-using-ses-capacity\/"},"modified":"2017-09-28T23:40:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T15:40:48","slug":"carnival-to-offer-new-wi-fi-service-using-ses-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/carnival-to-offer-new-wi-fi-service-using-ses-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival to Offer New Wi-Fi Service Using SES Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carnival<\/strong> has announced MedallionNet, a connectivity service enabled by <strong>SES Networks<\/strong> that will provide guests with high-speed and high bandwidth Wi-Fi aboard its cruise ships. The service will collectively leverage SES\u2019 Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) and Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) constellations, managed services, antenna and shipboard technology to provide broadband connectivity at sea.<\/p>\n<p>MedallionNet leverages multi-band antennas configured in a new shipboard formation to minimize any potential impact to guest connectivity due to seasonal weather or ship positioning and fuses multi-orbit satellite bandwidth to ensure reliable connectivity. The service is another development to emerge from Carnival\u2019s Global Experience and Innovation Center located in&nbsp;Miami&nbsp;and is the first Wi-Fi service formulated with a focus on exceeding guest expectations through what Carnival calls \u201cGuestCentricity<sup>\u201d<\/sup> \u2014 an initiative to enhance all aspects of the vacation experience by delivering guests \u201cwhat they want, when, where and how they want it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStaying connected is inextricably linked to our daily life experiences and that now extends to the vacation experience, even when sailing in the middle of the sea,\u201d said&nbsp;John Padgett, chief experience and innovation officer for Carnival. \u201cOur top priority is doing everything we can to exceed guest expectations, and by listening closely to our guests, we know Wi-Fi connectivity is important to many of our guests.&nbsp;For guests who want to disconnect, they are free to do so. But for those who want to stay connected, MedallionNet will make it easy for them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carnival has announced MedallionNet, a connectivity service enabled by SES Networks that will provide guests with high-speed and high bandwidth Wi-Fi aboard its cruise ships. The service will collectively leverage SES\u2019 Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) and Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) constellations, managed services, antenna and shipboard technology to provide broadband connectivity at sea. MedallionNet leverages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67180,"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-67179","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\/67179"}],"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=67179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}