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THE OLD WAY vs THE NEW WAY

Twenty years of maritime connectivity was built on one assumption: bandwidth at sea is scarce. It isn’t anymore. Here’s the honest comparison.

	The Old Way (legacy VSAT)	The New Way (bonded LEO + 5G)
Bandwidth	4–10 Mbps CIR	600 Mbps – 4+ Gbps (bond 4–20 Starlinks + OneWeb + 5G)
Cost per Mbps	$1,100–$2,500 /Mbps/month	Single-digit dollars /Mbps/month
Monthly bill	$4,500–$25,000	$3,000–$14,000 — for 100–300× the bandwidth
Latency	~600 ms (GEO physics)	30–60 ms — video calls and cloud apps just work
Contract	24–60 month lock-in, punitive overage ($50–$150/GB)	Own the hardware; flexible monthly service
Failure mode	One dome, one vendor, one path	6–23 bonded paths, two constellations, hot failover in milliseconds
Install	$30k–$80k dome + crane + weeks	Flat terminals on rails/hardtop; 2–5 yard days
Near shore	Same expensive satellite Mbps	Coastal 5G bonded in automatically — bulk data for pennies/GB
Scaling up	New contract negotiation	Bolt on more terminals. Bandwidth scales like Lego

The ROI headline: for the price of a 10 Mbps VSAT plan, a Maritime 20G kit delivers 2+ Gbps — and if you only match your old bandwidth needs instead, you keep $150k+ per year.

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SOLUTIONS — the three Maritime kits

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⚓ Maritime 10G Kit

For yachts under 50 m, workboats, and coastal commercial vessels.

• West Networks Maritime 10G Kit
• Core: Peplink Balance SDX Pro bonding engine
• Paths: 4× Starlink flat high-performance + 1× OneWeb + 2× coastal 5G
• Measured at sea: 600–900 Mbps down / 80–150 Mbps up
• SpeedFusion hot failover + WAN smoothing — guest calls survive terminal handoffs
• Auto-shifts bulk traffic to 5G near shore (pennies per GB)

~$38,000 one-time + from ~$3,000/mo service. Shop the 10G Kit →

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🛥️ Maritime 20G Kit ⭐ most popular

For 50–90 m superyachts, offshore support vessels, and ferries.

• West Networks Maritime 20G Kit
• Core: Peplink EPX chassis — multi-gigabit SpeedFusion engine
• Paths: 12× Starlink + 1× OneWeb + 4× 5G — up to 17 bonded paths
• Measured at sea: 2+ Gbps down / 250–400 Mbps up
• Per-application steering: owner/guest VLANs get smoothed priority paths; crew and ops traffic tiered behind
• Placement study from your GA drawings included — array fits rails, hardtop, mast platforms
• Existing VSAT? Keep it as one more bonded backup path during transition

~$85,000 one-time + from ~$10,000/mo service — 2+ Gbps for a 10 Mbps VSAT budget. Shop the 20G Kit →

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🚢 Maritime 40G Kit

For 90 m+ yachts, drillships, survey and expedition vessels — when downtime costs $30k–$100k a day.

• West Networks Maritime 40G Kit
• Core: dual redundant Peplink EPX chassis — no single point of failure anywhere, including the core
• Paths: 16–20× Starlink + 2× OneWeb + 4× 5G
• Measured at sea: 3–4+ Gbps down / 400–600 Mbps up
• Terabyte-class offload: 1 TB of survey data in ~1.5 hours instead of a 23-day trickle or a port call
• Dual-constellation, dual-core, multi-path: engineered for client uptime SLAs

Priced per vessel — request the design. Shop the 40G Kit →

Every kit is designed, staged, and remotely managed by West Networks — one dashboard for one hull or the whole fleet.

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FAQ

Q1. We already installed one Starlink. Why isn’t that enough? One terminal is a taste of LEO, not a platform. It’s a single point of failure with no SLA: it dips during obstructions and satellite handoffs, and per-terminal throughput is capped. Bonding 4–20 terminals with SpeedFusion stacks their capacity (12 terminals ≈ 2+ Gbps), fails over at the packet level in milliseconds, and smooths single-terminal dips so a guest’s video call never flickers. It turns consumer-grade LEO into carrier-grade WAN.

Q2. Where do 12–20 terminals physically go? Flat high-performance terminals are roughly 50 × 30 cm and mount on rails, hardtops, and mast platforms — no dome, no crane. Every kit includes a placement study from your GA drawings with obstruction mapping before anything ships. A 12-terminal array fits most vessels over 50 m without touching existing equipment.

Q3. What about rain fade and mid-ocean coverage? LEO rain fade is brief and per-terminal — with 8–12 terminals spread across the vessel, WAN smoothing rides through it invisibly. Both Starlink and OneWeb cover the world’s oceans; carrying both constellations (plus coastal 5G) means no single vendor, orbit, or path can take the vessel dark.

Q4. We’re 18 months into a 36-month VSAT contract. Are we stuck? No — go hybrid now. Deploy the bonded kit, demote the VSAT to one bonded backup path, and immediately stop paying $50–$150/GB in overage. Most operators find overage savings alone fund the kit before the VSAT term ends. At renewal, cut the CIR to minimum or drop it.

Q5. What does this actually cost per month? Kit-dependent: from ~$3,000/month (10G: 4 Starlinks + OneWeb + 5G, 600–900 Mbps) to ~$10,000–$14,000/month (20G: 12 Starlinks, 2+ Gbps). For context, that’s the same monthly range as a 4–10 Mbps VSAT plan — at 100–300× the bandwidth. Cost per Mbps drops from ~$1,500 to single digits.

Q6. Who manages it once it’s aboard? West Networks does. Every kit includes remote monitoring and management — per-path health, data pooling, profile changes, firmware — from one dashboard covering one hull or your entire fleet. Your ETO gets visibility; your crew gets their evenings back.

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LEAD FORM SECTION

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Get your vessel’s bonding design — free.

Tell us the vessel (or fleet), where she sails, and what you’re paying for VSAT today. A West Networks maritime engineer will send back a kit design — terminal count, placement approach, measured-throughput expectations, and honest month-one and year-one math. Usually within one business day.

Form fields: Name · Vessel / fleet name · Role · Email · Phone · Vessel LOA or fleet size · Operating region · Current connectivity monthly spend

Button: Design my deployment →

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