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Ocean Science Case Study: Shallow water performance characterisation of BlueComm 200
BlueComm shines at Toulon trials In November 2015 off the coast of Toulon, Total, together with the French research institute, Ifremer, conducted a performance trial of Sonardyne’s Free Space Optical Communications technology, BlueComm. The objective was to characterise the performance of the BlueComm 200 variant collecting data on beam shape, maximum range and data transfer rate. The secondary objective was to control an ROV using only BlueComm confirming link stability and demonstrating real world practicality. Communications Application Engineer, Matt Kingsland, was aboard for Baseline.