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Carnival will equip its entire fleet of 101 cruise ships of access to a new hybrid net wireless
the objective is to offer to the crocieristi and the members of the crews of the ships a faster and stable connection to the Internet net
November 3, 2014
The American Carnival Corporation has announced today that she will equip to all the 101 cruise ships operated from the nine crocieristici marks of the group of a connection to a hybrid net wireless called WiFi@Sea developed from the same Carnival that will integrate a series of antennas installed to earth near the crocieristiche routes with connections Wi-fi in the ports and connections satellite. The objective is to offer to the crocieristi and the members of the crews of the ships a faster and stable access to the Internet net in the course of navigation. According to the forecasts, the connection speed will be ten times advanced regarding that offer previously on the ships of the group.
In the course of the last trimester of this year the activation of the new hybrid net wireless for the ships employed in the Caribbean is previewed, in order to widen then the service to Alaska in the summer of 2015 and to extend it therefore to the Mediterranean, the Baltic Sea, western Europe and Asia in the course of 2015 and 2016.
"This - it has emphasized Ramon Millan, senior vice president and global chief information officer of Carnival Corporation - is an important technological step ahead realized in order to improve the crocieristica experience for our passengers. Our customers are on the lookout for sundries experiences when they are in cruise: some are interested to detach, others are interested to remain in contact with their world. Our new net will help those who want to remain connected also in vacation, it is that this means to control the e-mail or to mail photographies on their pages on the social medium".
"Moreover - it has specified Milan - our integrated net is planned for being highly flexible. Since the technology is in evolution, we are able to change the way in which our net work. Therefore he is very probable that one of the technologies that today we are using in our net already between little months can be replaced from a new and better technology".
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