In response to the growing demand for high performance maritime satellite communication, Furuno has announced the establishment of the Furuno Broadband Service Center (FBS).
FBS will be responsible for the development, expansion and maintenance of Furuno’s maritime satellite communication activities including marketing, support and traffic accounting for maritime satellite communication systems that include Inmarsat and VSAT systems.
FBS will assist ship owners in an effort to optimise individual communication decisions and processes for enhancing ship operation, ship safety and crew welfare onboard, and will be located at Furuno’s subsidiary company Furuno Danmark A/S in Copenhagen, Denmark.
“We are very excited about this new office in Copenhagen. Our new Broadband Service Center marks an important step forward in expanding our maritime broadband portfolio”, said Muneyuki Koike, Managing Director and Divisional Vice General Manager of Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.
The new service center will focus on the core areas vital for reliable maritime broadband connectivity including: tailored system solutions, least cost routing, airtime, compression utilities for optimisation of bandwidth, trench settings, white and black listing of Web pages, onboard GSM solutions, etc. FBS will also offer consulting, educational seminars and sales support.
