Hands On With an Iridium Satellite Phone
So as some of you guys know, I’m a software engineer and Web developer by profession. Recently, I received a client who has ocean freight services as one of their main services they provide their clients. You can check them out here: Advanced Logistics.
Interestingly enough, my business partners and I are doing a project for this company using an Iridium Satellite Phone. We are writing it in .NET and C# using a command called Rasdial.exe (included in Windows XP) and not to get too technical as this is not a programming blog (lol), I’ll just tell you this:
We wrote some programming code to establish a connection with the Iridium satellite phone and using that connection, FTP files from a ship (quite possibly in the middle of the Pacific Ocean) to a shore somewhere. It’s been a challenging, but fun project. Challenging because it’s hard to get a signal and the connection is VERY slow, but fun cause it’s just so damn fun to write code to fire up a satellite phone.
I guess it will get old, but we’ve never done it before, so we’re a little giddy about it!
We typical develop custom software and business to business or business to consumer Web Sites and a plethora of marketing services such as Google PPC management, article writing, social network setup, and SEO (search engine optimization), so this was very “green” to us, but very fun!
And I’m going to go work on it right now actually, so I’ll stop here.
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