Good news for those with a need for real-time financial market data at their salty fingertips while making crossing the world's oceans
Good news for those with a need
for real-time financial market data at their salty fingertips while
crossing the world's oceans: Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg services
have both been benchmarked aboard ship in a proper offshore passage
using Cobham satcom equipment.
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Brighton-based Beacon Electronic Trading Solutions stress-tested
the Thomson Reuters Eikon and Bloomberg Anywhere products whilst
using a Sea Tel
KU maritime Satcom system on board the motor yacht
Slipstream while on passage between Gibraltar and Palma,
Majorca.
The trial used the boat's existing Sea Tel Ku band satellite broadband connection,
fitted as standard to many yachts of this type. During the 30 hour
sea journey of 540 nautical miles, some of which in storm force
winds, the boat was well away from terrestrial GSM/3G services and
were completely reliant on the satellite system for internet
access.
Chris Smith, founder and senior technical consultant at Beacon
ETS, said that using the yacht's standard satellite 512k internet
connection, they were able to confirm that Thomson Reuters Eikon
and Bloomberg Anywhere performed "extremely well", with 4000+
real-time instruments in Excel and full featured desktop
applications. The tests were re-run numerous times during the
journey, including Asian, European and US Market Open, over the
variable latency link and in various weather conditions.
The crew continued their normal duties and used the shared
broadband link without being affected by the market data
testing.
The Sea Tel VSAT system fitted to the yacht, which is Cobham's
latest model, proved to work efficiently and provided very light
bandwidth usage figures (max 200kb/s), with no loss of connectivity
or features, during the testing period.
Some additional tests were also performed during the time on
board Slipstream and in some pretty rough sea conditions, using an
Apple Macbook Air with Oracle VirtualBox desktop virtualisation,
which had "even more impressive" results, said Smith.
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Marine click
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Original article taken from
Banking Technology