With 250 Million Messages Being Sent Via AmosConnect Maritime Email Service, Stratos Touches New Height

Stratos Global is globally known for its suits of advanced mobile and fixed-site remote communications solutions. With its AmosConnect maritime satellite communications service, the company has reached a milestone, where some 250 million messages were sent via its remarkable maritime satellite communications service.
 

 
It was just the last month that the latest version of AmosConnect---AmosConnect 8---was released by Stratos. It enhances new broadband IP-based maritime satellite services which include FleetBroadband, Iridium  OpenPort and the VSAT solutions OceanVSAT and StratosITek. Integration with these broadband services enables users to control their sessions and ensure optimal airtime use directly from AmosConnect.
 
In its latest version, AmosConnect 8 includes such features as StratosNet Accelerator, extended remote configuration, cost allocation and extended message filtering in addition to its existing features of email messaging, automatic file transfer and data synchronization. These improvements, according to Stratos, would help ensure streamlined operations, cost efficiency and optimization of available bandwidth.
 
Stratos said that new AmosConnect 8 optimizes the use of satellite airtime by automatically compressing and caching all transfers. AmosConnect 8 also supports all narrowband satellite connections. Stratos' new AmosConnect hub platform, featuring ultra-modern hardware technology, has been extensively tested and began operation last month.
 
According to Stratos, nearly 20,000 AmosConnect from Stratos licenses have been issued and the service is used by more than 200,000 officers and crewmembers on vessels operated by Wallem Shipmanagement, Dockendale Shipping and the Royal Netherlands Navy, among others. Stratos is the largest supplier of mobile satellite services to the maritime industry, with communications to more than 40,000 maritime terminals worldwide.
 
Wallem Shipmanagement has been using this user-friendly and robust AmosConnect application for quite some for business and crew communication. The Crown Garnet from Wallem Shipmanagement was the very vessel that transmitted the milestone message. Interesting to note that Wallem deploys AmosConnect on more than 100 vessels.

 

Integrated communication services are essential for maritime industry as nothing can better handle corporate productivity and crew satisfaction simultaneously. And Stratos has always stayed committed to this growing industry need.
 
Stratos President and CEO Jim Parm commented: “We reached this milestone quicker than anyone expected. This is further proof of our commitment to meet the maritime industry's need for integrated communications services that help ensure both corporate productivity and crew satisfaction for an ever-growing global population. Today's news also is testament to our engineers who design and deploy our AmosConnect service, as well as to our customer-service professionals who consistently ensure end-user satisfaction”.