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XGate provides faster satellite and wireless email to significantly
save airtime cost and dramatically increase efficiency. Designed for
satellite phone, Pactor, or cellular customers who must have access to
fast and reliable email while in remote locations, XGate is simply the
most comprehensive and cost-efficient wireless email product available,
saving both time and money. In fact, XGate can reduce
cruise ships',
fleets' or yacht’s
satellite air time cost by up to 85%. It is up to
15 times faster than slow
uncompressed
air time connections to Internet based email systems. No other
commercial service is as fast, economical or has XGate's powerful
benefits to meet your needs. |
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find XGate to be quite helpful in using e-mail over a wi-fi system.
Many times I am anchored a mile or two from a hotspot; Even with a
masthead antenna and a high-power gateway the connection is sometimes
too flaky to support a web mail session. But XGate gets through
just fine, even if the wi-fi is only solid for a few seconds at a time.
-Bob Knaus, Sailing Cruiser- |
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Powerful Benefits
These key benefits are offered to all users accessing the XGate Fast Wireless
Email service through GMN and participating partner companies.
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Extremely simple user interface; up and
running and handling email in minutes.
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Full support for
attachments and HTML messaging.
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Flexibility - Supports Hotmail,
MSN, Yahoo, EarthLink, and other e-mail automatically and easily with
XGate.
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Works
with any email client which supports POP/SMTP such as Eudora, Outlook,
Outlook Express, and also features an integrated multi-lingual email
client supporting 21 languages, address book, word spelling, calendar, and
attachments.
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Server side filtering which
can be controlled by the user. Users can determine the maximum size of
attachments they will receive via wireless modes. They can also specify
whether HTML attachments are to be sent to them via wireless modes.
Messages not sent via wireless are stored on the server for later perusal
via the web.
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Client side filtering which
allows the selective download of messages. This mode works very well for
satellite users.
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Full multiple personality
support.
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Runs on a network.
One wireless device can serve the email needs for an entire local area
network.
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Server side virus removal
support which scans every e-mail sent or received for viruses and
spam filtering to remove unwanted
junk mail.
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Software works seamlessly
with all wireless modes of communication (Satellite, Cell phone, HF Radio)
as well as through conventional Internet channels such as dial-up and LAN
adapters. The user does not need to change e-mail programs when he is off
his boat.
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DES/PGP
Encryption of E-Mail.
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Digital
signatures.
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Technical support provided
to it's users while others do not.
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Webmail access from any
internet connected PC to the users mail box.
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Crew Accounts
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Vessel tracking and vessel side position
reporting
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Extremely fast custom
wireless protocol optimized with compression for the fastest possible
transfer of email.
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Duplex support for sending
and receiving e-mails concurrently.
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Automatic mid file restart at point of dropped calls.
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SMS support. The mail
server sends e-mail messages to the users satellite phone via the free SMS
service informing him when mail has arrived. This feature prevents users
from having to waste air time to check and see if e-mail is available for
them.
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Easy ASync support for
Globalstar users. This feature allows you to use your phone in countries
that do not have direct data access networks.
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Async access for Imarsat,
MSAT, and Iridium users.
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Works in either Simplex or
Full duplex mode to better take advantage of the underlying architecture
of your wireless device.
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Nationwide dialup access.
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Routable protocol
supporting a wide range of flexible connectivity solutions.
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Sample Screens:
a Wireless Gateway Status Page, a Sample Email Client
Home Page, and an
XWeb Weather Chart
Certification and Awards
Review XGate's awards and certifications on our
certification page
Product
Comparison
On average XGate is about 10 to 15 times
faster than our competition when it comes to delivering E-Mail.
Customers routinely receive over 30 e-mails in less than 1 minute
over satellite connections. The E-Mail transfers "cook"!
Here is a product comparison that proves the point.
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Product |
Average processing time
Comparison
based on (3) 1 mb or less e-mails |
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XGate |
20 seconds |
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Netscape |
7.32 minutes |
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Outlook Express |
6.60 minutes |
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Eudora Pro |
6.79 minutes |
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Supported Wireless Technologies
- Iridium Certified
- Globalstar approved
- Inmarsat all modes except "C".
- Cellular phones via direct dialup or direct data network.
- Mobile computing cards such as AirCard.
- GSM/GPRS.
- R-BGAN/BGAN
- Thuraya.
- MSAT/MSV.
- WiFi and Bluetooth Networks
- HF/SSB via the
XNet HF Association
Network or custom installations
- Any wireless mode that supports TCP/IP.
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Full Seamless DES/PGP Public Key Encryption and Digital
Signatures
XGate seamlessly integrates full DES/PGP encryption/decryption into your
messaging through your e-mail client such as with Outlook Express. Send and
receive E-Mail messages with the confidence that only encryption can provide
you. Encryption of incoming and outgoing e-mail is one click away. Simply
e-mail your public key to a remote party and start receiving confidential
securely encrypted mail immediately. When an encrypted message arrives
simply push a button on the tool bar, enter your secure private key, and read
your message. To send an encrypted message simply compose the text as you
normally would, hit the encrypt button, and then push the send button.
Management of public keys is simplified via seamless integration with the
address book. Public keys received via e-mail can be entered into the
address book with the push of a button. Encrypted E-Mail security has
never been simpler! Learn how to encrypt e-mail with XGate's
e-mail client iScribe.
Satellite SMS Service Fully Supported
SMS stands for Simple Message Service. This service provided by Iridium
and Globalstar satellite companies allows users to send very short textual
messages to it's subscribers for free. GMN uses this feature to inform
it's users that mail has arrived for them at the central mail server.
Knowing how many messages are on the server saves our users money since they
don't have to call in to "see" if they have received mail. The SMS service
is included as a standard feature in our e-mail package and is provided at no
additional cost.
Web Mail Access
GMN provides web access to user mail boxes as a standard feature. While
away from their vessels users can log into our mail web server to receive their
mail. Additionally the web mail server allows users to customize service
side filtering rules which dictate which kind of messages should be directed to
their wireless account and which messages should be left on the server.
This server side filtering allows users access to large e-mails with attachments
and/or HTML content with out "bogging" down their wireless connections.
Virus Scanning and Spam Filtering
The XGate server scans every incoming and outgoing mail message for viruses
and/or spam. This protection not only gives the users one more weapon to
defend himself against destructive e-mail viruses but also removes unwanted
content eliminating the expensive air time charges required to receive these
unwanted e-mails.
E-Mail Filtering
Mail filtering is an important component of the XGate mail system which
removes undesired content from mail messages before they ever get delivered. Two
types of email filtering are used by XGate to reduce the overhead of
undesired emails destined for a wireless account.
Server side mail filtering applies a set of simple yet powerful mail
filtering rules to mail that arrives on the server for a user before it gets
delivered to his wireless mailbox. User accounts by default are
preconfigured with two basic filters, one which filters by the size of the
incoming message and one which filters mail by HTML content.
The default for the size filter is set to 50 Kbytes and is fully customizable
by the user. Mail messages arriving that are larger than the configurable cutoff
size are redirected to a special "Big Mail" box which is accessible via the
servers webmail interface and are not transmitted to the user via the wireless
device. Grandparents on the road, for example, can receive baby pictures
of their latest grandchild without the overhead of long expensive airtime
charges. The baby pictures are stored on the server for retrieval at some
later convenient time using their web browser over a standard internet
connection.
HTML filtering is also customizable by the user and removes all HTML content
sent to the wireless device. Plain text embedded in the e-mail is sent to
the user along with a message stating that the HTML content has been removed.
The original unadulterated message is stored on the mail server for later
viewing over the internet using a standard web browser and the XGate's
webmail program.
Unlike server side mail filtering which happens before e-mail is delivered to
a users mailbox, client side filtering works on messages which have been
delivered to the inbox but before they are transferred via the wireless device.
The XGate client allows messages which are larger than a certain customizable
size to be tagged on the server and not downloaded via the wireless device.
Users can specify that a few lines as well as the header of large mail messages
be retrieved while the bulk of the message is left on the server. Once the mail
header and a few lines of the mail message are examined, the user can then
specify that the message be deleted from the server without ever retrieving it,
or if the mail is important, to mark it for full download on the next
connection. As in server side mail filtering, messages stored on the
server can also be accessed with a standard web browser via the internet.
Crew Accounts
Full support for managing crew e-mail accounts. Follow this
link to learn more about
crew accounts.
Vessel Tracking
Full featured vessel tracking with on vessel reports can be purchased as an
option. XGate also includes a GPS repeater which allows several
applications on a PC to share the same GPS concurrently. Follow this
link to learn more about XGate's
vessel tracking.
Networking
XGate is a full fledged E-Mail server supporting full POP and SMTP protocols
on a local LAN. This means that on larger vessels crew and passengers with
computers hooked up to the ship's local area network can send and receive
wireless mail from the comfort of their cabin. One instance of XGate is
run on the communications officers computer. Crew and passengers use the
local area network to send and receive their e-mail using a standard e-mail
client running the POP and SMTP protocol to the communications computer where
the messages are stored for later transmission. At some time in the future
the communications officers use XGate to send all queued e-mail via the wireless
device to the internet. Any mail waiting on the mail server is then
downloaded for all members of the crew and stored locally on the communications
PC. At their convenience the crew then use the LAN and their PC's to
retrieve their personal mail.
How it Works
The reason XGate works as well is does is because the technology used
in the program is optimized specifically for E-Mail transfers. Many of our
competitors offer compression technologies that fail to perform as well as ours
simply because they blindly compress everything that comes over the line.
XGate concentrates on optimizing only E-Mail transfers and it does a superb job
at this.
Most wireless technologies are basically simplex in the nature of their radio
transmissions. This means that when a radio (or sat phone) is transmitting
data the full bandwidth of the channel is allocated for the one way transfer.
It takes a lot of protocol overhead and therefore time to reverse the direction
of the communication channel. This basic design feature of all
wireless devices is counter productive when looking at E-Mail transfers.
The SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) protocol that all standard E-Mail
programs use defines a "chat" that requires about 10 line turn-arounds to
complete. That is 10 times that the direction of data transmission must be
reversed to complete the transaction. This "chat" kills the performance
for sending mail via these channels. Companies that concentrate only on
compressing data and not limiting the number of line turn-arounds gain very
little performance advantage when doing e-mail traffic.
XGate is designed specifically to reduce the number of line turn-arounds
while additionally benefiting from compression. The proprietary E-Mail protocol
eliminates almost ALL line turn-arounds by sending large compressed
streams of data to a server process running at our central location. The
server unpacks the data stream and then carries out the standard SMTP "chat" to
send the mail. Receiving mail uses the same wireless enhanced technology.
All incoming mail is collected by the server, packaged into one compressed
stream of data and sent to the e-mail client in one unidirectional transfer.
The E-Mail client then parses through the data breaking it up into individual
mail messages and then presents them to you for viewing.
This simplex optimization does not mean that you give up performance when
using XGate on duplex devices. With a simple setting XGate can be switched
over to full duplex operation using the same reduced over head protocol as above
but doing so while sending and receiving at the same time. On Globalstar
phones, for example, benchmarks show up to a 40% increase in performance running
in duplex vs. simplex mode.
Press Releases
http://www.iridium.com/corp/iri_corp-news.asp?newsid=168
http://www.iridium.com/corp/iri_corp-news.asp?newsid=184
http://www.globalstareurope.com/en/about/newsevents/press_display.php?pressId=17
OCENS/Globalstar Press Release
Testimonials
Here is what some of our customers have to say about the service
On XGate over wifi
Just wanted to thank you for XGate. I am using it for all my internet
e-mail including Iridium, cell phone, internet cafe and WiFi.
I find that XGate is quick and will pass the internet and WiFi firewalls when
Outlook will fail or time out.
I was surprised with the WiFi. I have been able to e-mail with some very poor
quality WiFi links were both Explorer and Outlook will time out but XGate will
get through. It may take several try's but it usually works.
Thanks for the great product, it more than pays for itself.
Bill Stockton
S/V True Love
Petersburg, AK
Ocean Frontiers 1000 Hour Day Expedition (www.1000hourday.com)
As you both know, your XGate & iScribe software worked brilliantly for
Clark
and I while we were on our Ocean Frontiers 1000 Hour Day Expedition on
Victoria Island over the last few months. Many people have been letting us
know how much they enjoyed being able to follow our progress via the
updates.
200' Commercial Vessel Owner on Maiden Voyage from Taiwan to Yucatan, MX
LUIS:
TE ENVIO UN SALUDO DESDE MITAD DEL PACIFICO (03° 00.00N - 134° 52.93E).
NUEVAMENTE DE DOY LAS GRACIAS POR TU APOYO PARA LA CONEXION DEL TELEFONO
IRIDIUM, HA FUNCIONADO MUY BIEN NO HE TENIDO NINGUN PROBLEMA PARA BAJAR
LOS REPORTES METEREOLOGICOS, NI PARA EL ENVIO Y RECEPCION DE CORREOS,
VERDADERAMENTE ES UN GRAN APOYO, EFICIENTE, CONFIABLE, RAPIDO Y BARATO.
UN ABRAZO.
EDUARDO ALFARO
Bruce Schwab on Oceanplanet
"Global Marine Network's suite of products have eclipsed all other
weather data acquisition and at-sea communication programs available for today's
mariners. From 'WeatherNet', which puts virtually ALL the useful weather data in
the world (WeatherFax, GRIB, Quicscat, and more.) at your fingertips, to 'XGate'
which is an incredibly efficient email conduit for low-bandwidth communications,
to 'XWeb' which allows efficient internet access (even on Iridium!), this group
of products work together most impressively. For me they are now essential tools
on any offshore passage."
-- Bruce Schwab, Skipper, Ocean Planet---first American to officially
finish the Vendee Globe (solo, around the world, nonstop), and now GMN/OCENS
dealer. (see www.bruceschwab.com or
email bruce@bruceschwab.com).
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Hello Bruce,
Welcome back and congratulations on your finish.
You have set a new xgate Iridium record. 32 e-mails in 53 seconds.
--luis
Transaction log...
Fri Feb 25 13:32:31 2005 [57896] passwd file: logged in haji IRIDIUM_ASYNC0
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] cmd: "xget 0"
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] Processing mail for haji /home/haji
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109336729.M944850 1096
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109336750.M166316 1827
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109336753.M383496 674
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109336759.M384245 925
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337543.M996395 3052
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337544.M842255 841
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337548.M16741 911
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337549.M719777 1108
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337552.M823031 860
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337553.M930985 960
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337557.M72692 1371
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337558.M161576 645
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337560.M367256 807
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337562.M18562 21053
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337565.M53658 23924
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337566.M151556 819
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337569.M714224 2931
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337570.M146150 752
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337574.M255596 613
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337575.M232270 1181
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337578.M383060 777
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337579.M872122 1499
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337583.M42495 825
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337584.M623028 958
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337587.M632049 573
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337587.M731951 3727
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337591.M512222 637
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337592.M709532 2810
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337595.M242015 704
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337596.M458329 645
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337598.M806921 815
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] hdr: 1109337966.M173964 1876
Fri Feb 25 13:32:33 2005 [57896] Sending server.x.bz2 14567 32
Fri Feb 25 13:33:26 2005 [57896] ACK
Fri Feb 25 13:33:27 2005 [57896] Done processing mail for haji
Jean Silverwood on Emeraldhane
Hello Jean,
You just downloaded 328 e-mail messages in 7:10 seconds. You
averaged 47 e-mails per minute for the transfer! You
transferred 1.6 Mb worth of data for an effective baud rate of 36kb... not
bad for a phone that is only rated at 9600 baud and downloading a pile of
small messages.
This is not the fastest we have seen with XGate (Large files
transfer at a higher effective baud rate) but given the large number of
small messages you had this is quite an impressive figure.
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[XGate] Its an awesome program and when we are ready to get back on
a boat I will be
sure to contact you again. Glad to see your selling the phones now too.
Its much easier to deal with one company that knows what they are doing. I
found the companies that sold the phones separately had trouble diagnosing
the problems with the software and the hardware and would definitely give
you the runaround. You were the only one who got the thing working
properly.
From Polly Vacher, Wings Around the World
I just want to say a huge thank you for your wonderful sponsorship
enabling
me to send e-mails via my satellite phone. This has been and still is a
fantastic help to me, and in Antarctica, I don't know how I would have
managed without it.
I do hope that you have seen my website
www.worldwings.org
and...
Dear Luis
Thank you so much for helping me out of a hole yesterday. Especially as it
was the middle of the night for you. I do so appreciate it.
I have relied heavily on your sat phone connection as AOL is useless in
many parts of the world! It was silly of me to think that someone in a hotel
business centre could fix up an AOL link without effecting the GMN link. I have
learnt my lesson. In fact, he didn't link me to AOL at all, and just messed up
my GMN link too.
You may have discovered that I am virtually computer illiterate, and just
use it as a means of recording my diary and sending and receiving e-mails - BUT
it IS my lifeline and it has been wonderful.
So, so relieved to be back on line - thank you
Polly
Jonathan Selby Director of Software Development for Xaxero LTD while on
S/V Anahera using an Iridium Satellite Phone
Performance of new XGate is tremendous. When handling a large amount of
text based mail it just flies. It is way better than calypso [Fastmail] ever
was. I did 20 messages in under a minute today. You are definitely on to
something here and I think we have a winner.
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Congratulations - I believe you have the best compression and throughput
available anywhere and endorse your product with confidence.
Bob Knaus on S/V Pellucid
Luis - just got done downloading messages of 1.9M and 2.4M in a single
Globalstar session. I must say, your compression scheme does work well!
That would not have been possible in the marginal reception area of Ft.
Lauderdale with the Calypso wireless client.
Bob - Very happy to hear that the compression works so well for you.
Here are the entries in the logs. Note that the 2.4M file was compressed to
450K and the 1.9M file was compressed to 208K. Total transfer time was 11
minutes which is an effective baud rate of about 64Kb for this particular
transfer. This same transfer with Calypso Wireless would have taken 75
minutes!
Bob Wilkins
Just wanted to drop a note to you that the e-mail system is really
really working great. The speed is nothing short of fantastic. Using Verizon
cell, or Verizon wireless card, or Globalstar, or my "home wireless system"
.... All work with such speed it is amazing.
You should be selling this system to every boat that floats around the world
!!!!!!
Chris Parker on S/V Belami
E-mail is FAST! There was nothing in my GMN box, but the call
was connected and disconnected in just 3 SECONDS!
XGate (OCENS.Mail) over GSM/GPRS
On the good reports to you for your use: I now have the latest Vodafone
"3G"
card and service. It is surprisingly available in Italy, and even for some
distance out at sea (once at 9 miles out). When 3G is not available, I have
set the program to drop to GPRS. With both of these services, the strength
of the signal varies up and down. Ocens ALWAYS finds a way to work with the
available signal. The Vodafone client allows me to watch up and down bits.
Ocens seems to get through when there is no up/down bits.
If I were you, I would make known how Ocens can work better with available
wireless (cellular) frequency far better than anything else. IE, for example,
tends to sniff her nose at the signal and say "no thanks" until I get out
the whip.
Bill Bane
Jon Selby after installing multi-user XGate Pro on the M/V Polar Star
cruise ship (http://www.polarstarexpeditions.com)
The local mail delivery is tremendous and a very powerful communication
tool and has really made them very happy. It certainly impressed me.
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