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The
Princess Mariana is the 26th
largest mega-yacht in the world. At 261 feet, this luxury
floating palace has a full-time crew of 33.
Spread over the
six decks are 188 extension connections and 45 private cellular network
phones. The dual networked Panasonic KX-TDA system
consists of sixteen incoming marine, VoIP and satellite lines,
some of which are dedicated to three administrative fax
machines.
Working area call groups were set up for officers,
administration, engineering, housekeeping, deck services and
foodservice. Each crew member was assigned a KX-TD7680
Wireless Cellular Telephone with immediate access to other
members of his/her work group. members. After hours, calls
flow to the duty phone for each department, overflowing to key
crew members.
The cellular network consists of five KX-TD7690 Premium
Wireless Cellular Phones and forty KX-TD7680 Wireless phones,
all accessed through a system of sixteen 3-channel cell station
antennas. Antennas are strategically located on all six
decks of the boat, placement was based on signal strength issues
necessitated by the metal decks and bulkheads.
The largest power supply, supports previously used Panasonic
KX-T7500 European series digital telephones. A number of
KX-T7636 IP-Hybrid System Telephones were installed using the
digital XDP doubling capabilities of the TDA system. The
ability to hang multiple wired telephones of a single pair of
Category 5 wire, eliminated the need to run additional wiring
under very demanding conditions.
U.S. Navy Vessel
In August 2006, Comvox completed
programming of KX-TDA100 and KX-TVA50s with eight incoming
telephone lines and sixty-four digital extensions for the USS Klakring and the USS Gettysburg at Naval Station Mayport,
Jacksonville, Florida.
Panasonic telephone systems are
on several U.S. Navy ships including the nuclear submarine, USS
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