Sea Air Space 2019: Systel welcomes maritime processing demand
The need for maritime operators to integrate ‘high end processing’ capabilities to their digital footprint is in huge demand, according to rugged computer and hardware manufacturer, Systel.
That demand is directly related to vast amounts of data being generated by naval vessels and their subsystems, with customers focused on how they can add ‘small package’ solutions to their inventory.
‘The sheer throughput of data coming in, terabytes and potentially petabytes of data, at real-time speed is overwhelming,’ Aneesh Kothari, VP of marketing at Systel, told Shephard.
‘Having a high-performance CPU, processing capability and being able to stream that
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