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There’s a world of important data out there – a lot that you need and a lot that you want. IP-MobileCast delivers large files to ships affordably, by using groundbreaking mobile broadband technology.

The central insight behind IP-MobileCast is that it’s far more efficient to send a file once to everyone than again and again to every recipient. Network engineers call this strategy multicasting. For 1,000 users, it’s literally 1,000 times more efficient than the standard Internet unicast protocol.

IP-MobileCast employs an "over-to-top" delivery mechanism using idle network bandwidth and a separate data stream. As a result, KVH can deliver as much as 500 GB of news, sports and entertainment content per month to each vessel without using the ship's data plan or affecting onboard speeds.

Content is cached on KVH's TracPhone Integrated CommBox Modem (ICM) or TracNet Hub+ where it is accessible to crew via TVs in the common areas as well as via personal devices for latency-free access for ships with up to 50 crew.