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Ryan Smith

Ryan Smith

Senior Director, Global Leisure & Commercial Americas Sales at KVH Industries; maritime connectivity specialist

Jul 24, 2026

25:41
But why is it becoming essential rather than simply desirable? Do you want to sort of put that into a bit of a nutshell? Ryan, do you want to answer that first, then coming on to Robert?
25:50
Sure, yeah.
25:51
So again, I think hybrid and multi-orbit actually is not necessarily a really new topic, in all honesty.
26:00
I think the...
26:02
The orbits in question are really the new piece.
26:06
So, you know, VSAT's been around for decades, Iridium, obviously the LEO services.
26:12
And so I think the structure in terms of the priority of which ones those fall under and what that really means to the vessel for operations ship management and then obviously you know more crew and personal type scenarios and and ultimately i think the leo speeds and low latency have driven those onboard applications whether it's personal or operational to just grow exponentially you know we're talking vessels using terabytes of data on a monthly basis where before you were talking 50 gigs, 100 gigs or less on a lot of applications with much less speed.

20 MINS LATER

47:11
It'd be quite interesting to get a perspective, but your thoughts.

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