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Michael O'Dell wrote:

given that the original Xenex products were the "CAN-3000"
PCI interfaces it wouldn't surprise me a bit to find that
Transas was OEMing the CAN-3000 card. the original designer
of the CAN-3000 system was a German outfit that got bought along
the way in creating Xenex.

Note that unlike Nobeltec, Transas makes a real IMO-qualified
ECDIS and their "lower-end" ECD and "yacht" software is derived
from that technology. while the ECDIS systems are by definition
vector-based, their ECD-based systems support both vector and raster
cartography. And given the competitive posture of Transas,
I suspect they won't allow Nobeltec to go unchallenged for very long.


My memory is failing - the original hardware was "CANSTAR-3000"
and it's not ECD, it's ECS (Electronic Charting System) which is
the "lesser sibling" of ECDIS - Electronic Chart Display and Information
Systems. ECDIS is the "offical" electronic nav system defined
by the IMO as being a replacement for paper charts on Big Ships.

btw - reading about ECDIS functions is pretty interesting.
the standards are quite high and the discussion for the reasons
is pretty good reading (as technical standards stuff goes - hehe).

-mo