Customer Success Story The Challenges The Dutch Pilots’ Corporation (Nederlands Loodswezen) guides 100,000 ships into North Sea harbors every year. Deep-draught vessels bound for Rotterdam must negotiate channels within a tolerance of five meters or less in some of the world’s harshest weather conditions. Positioning updates frequently took longer than the required three seconds for navigational precision, even with a supplementary land-based system. While on-board modems attempted to find signals or switch between networks, software applications would often freeze, requiring pilots to reboot, resulting in a complete loss of navigational information. Connectivity issues compromised safety and scheduling efficiency throughout the Netherland’s busy harbors, rivers and locks. The

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