The FB150 service is tailored for smaller maritime platforms such as fisheries and leisure vessels. It is ideal for checking weather reports, sending and receiving emails and keeping in touch with the office or home with low airtime budgets.

A natural replacement for the Mini-M - more powerful, faster, and more effective – the FB150 delivers data communications with speeds of up to 150 kbps, simultaneous voice and SMS on the smallest and lightest of the FB terminals. 

The FB150 above-deck antenna unit is highly compact and easy to install.  The below deck unit will be similarly scaled and offer standard interfaces to allow quick and easy connection to PCs and ‘off the shelf’ peripheral services.

The terminals are manufactured by Thrane&Thrane and AddValue, available for shipment from distributors June 30. Vizada will have Thrane&Thrane terminals in stock from early July.

With this new service the FleetBroadband family is complete and now consists of:

• FB150: Standard IP up to 150 Kbps, SMS, voice, fax
• FB250: Standard IP up to284 Kbps, streaming up to 128 Kbps, SMS, voice, fax
• FB500: Standard IP up to 432 Kbps, streaming up to 256 Kbps, SMS, voice, fax, ISDN

Vizada Solutions™ can be easily combined with all FB terminals, helping you get more from your broadband communications service.

These include Vizada’s Universal Card™ prepaid service for crew welfare (voice, email, web), SkyFile® Mail messaging software and data compression tool, SkyFile® Anti Virus, as well as reliable accurate and timely weather reports with SkyFile® Weather.

In addition, Vizada has developed indispensable solutions to help you better control the cost of broadband communications. The Source® online management tool enables you to closely monitor traffic consumption and with Terralink® Data Manager you can set alerts, limits and thresholds.