MARITIME 101 · LESSON SERIES
You’re paying $1,500 per megabit per month for connectivity your crew apologizes for.
Bond 4-20 Starlinks with OneWeb and coastal 5G into one unbreakable connection — gigabits at sea, for the price of a legacy VSAT plan.
Five myths about maritime connectivity
The five things everyone believes — and what the field data actually says. Each one is a two-minute lesson.
Myth 1
“VSAT is the only serious option at sea”
VSAT ran $1,500 per Mbps for single-digit megabits. Bonded Starlink arrays deliver gigabits for a fraction of that — a 72 m charter yacht retired VSAT entirely at 2.3 Gbps.
Myth 2
“One Starlink is a platform”
One terminal is a link — with handoffs, weather fades and obstructions. Twelve to twenty terminals bonded into one tunnel is a platform. That’s how the fastest internet at sea is built.
Myth 3
“You can’t get gigabit offshore”
Vessels are running 2-30+ Gbps of bonded capacity today — charter yachts at 2.3 Gbps, cruise ships past 30 Gbps on HA Balance 5000 EC cores.
Myth 4
“Failover between links is fine at sea”
Guests on a video call don’t experience ‘failover’ — they experience a drop. Bonding keeps every session alive while individual terminals fade and recover.
Myth 5
“Crew, guests and ops can share one network”
Charter guests, crew welfare, bridge systems and CCTV need segmentation, quotas and priorities — VLANs and per-network policy on the same bonded core.
Five fixes: how the New Enterprise does it
Fix 1
Bonded Starlink arrays
12-20 terminals fused into one stable, encrypted connection.
Read more →Fix 2
HA cores in redundant pairs
Balance 5000 EC pairs — a core failure is a non-event mid-crossing.
Read more →Fix 3
VLAN-as-WAN trunking
Dozens of satellite links into the core over one trunk — port and starboard.
Read more →Fix 4
Guest / crew / ops segmentation
Policy per network: guests get speed, crew gets fairness, the bridge gets priority.
Read more →Fix 5
Kit sizing: 10G / 20G / 40G
Honest sizing from demand budget to terminal count.
Read more →Proof from the field
“Twelve to twenty Starlinks bonded per vessel, 30+ Gbps on the big hulls — ‘the network simply works’ is the whole review.”
From the field · West Networks maritime deployments
Proof
72 m charter superyacht
12 bonded Starlinks, 2.3 Gbps, VSAT retired.
Read the case study →Proof
Offshore survey operator
4 vessels, terabyte offloads, one saved standby day per rotation.
Read the case study →Proof
A leading global cruise line
12-20 Starlinks per ship, HA 5000 EC cores, 30+ Gbps.
Read the case study →Packages
Three honest tiers — sized by how bad your worst day is allowed to be. Every package is bonded, encrypted, and managed from anywhere.
Package 1
Coastal / Workboat
Maritime 10G kit — bonded Starlink + cellular for nearshore operations.
See the kit →Package 2
Yacht / Charter
Maritime 20G kit — multi-Starlink array with guest-grade segmentation.
See the kit →Package 3
Ship / Fleet
Maritime 40G kit — HA cores, VLAN-as-WAN trunking, shore-side aggregation.
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Broadband + 5G + Starlink
Unbreakable connectivity
The hardware bonds the links; west5g supplies them — multi-carrier 5G data plans, pooled data across your fleet, and Starlink pairing, engineered for five-nines uptime by the same team that builds your network.