Parachute Sea Anchors – New Maritime Technology Hopes To Save Lives At Sea
● A dynamically positioned (DP) drillship operating in the Gulf Of Mexico prepares for an approaching hurricane. They secure the oil well, chain the deck cargo and fly all non-essential…
M250 Turboshaft- Helicopter Engine
The industry-standard 420-715 shp turboshaft engine Product details ● Over 200 million fleet flight hours ● Over 30,000 engines delivered ● Lowest cost of operation ● Continuously improved ● Customer Support Center available 24 hours…
Rolls-Royce to deliver world’s first gas power system for tugs
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has signed a contract to deliver highly efficient engines and propulsion systems for the world’s first Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) powered tugs. The two…
Asynchronous Transfer Mode Switching (ATM)
Introduction Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is an International Telecommunication Union Telecommunications Standards Section (ITU-T) standard for cell relay wherein information for multiple service types, such as voice, video, or data,…
Frame Relay
Introduction Frame Relay is a high-performance WAN protocol that operates at the physical and data link layers of the OSI reference model. Frame Relay originally was designed for use across…
X.25
Special Instructional Objective On completion of this lesson, the student will be able to: · State the key features of X.25 · Explain the frame format of X.25 · Specify the function of…
Titanic Facts
1.Titanic Was Built at Harland and Wolff, Belfast. 2.Titanic Had 24 double-ended and 5 single-ended boilers 3.The Center Propeller had 4 blades and the wing propellers both starboard and port…
Physical Configuration and Network Elements
Three basic devices used in the SONET system are shown in Fig. 4.3.1. Functions of the three devices are mentioned below: · Synchronous Transport Signal (STS) multiplexer/demultiplexer: It either multiplexes signal…
Why Synchronize?
In a synchronous system such as SONET, the average frequency of all clocks in the system will be the same (synchronous) or nearly the same (plesiochronous). Every clock can be…
Wärtsilä 32GD main technical data
The Wärtsilä 32GD has been developed to set new standards in the market for high performance, fuel-flexible engines. The Wärtsilä 32GD is a four-stroke, gas-diesel engine, which means that the…
