United States Coast Guard Launches SOA Initiative with Fiorano Platform
11/25/2009
Fiorano Software announced that the United States Coast Guard (USCG), America's guardian of the maritime economy and the environment, has deployed India's Fiorano enterprise-wide to power their Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) system for Homeland Security.
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"Fiorano is delighted to have been chosen by the US Coast Guard to power their enterprise nervous system for mission-critical services in compliance with the DHS and FEA frameworks", said Atul Saini, CEO, Fiorano Software.
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"The US Coast Guard's mission to adopt SOA and their deliberate, rigorous, 18-month evaluation of leading ESB technology (including products from IBM, Oracle and TIBCO) demonstrates the superiority of Fiorano's event-driven, data-flow approach to enterprise architecture. Fiorano's SOA Platform enables customers to draw their business models and immediately implement running applications as distributed services across real-time, peer-to-peer dataflow pipelines on a distributed network", he added.
"For the United States Coast Guard, adopting enterprise-wide SOA as part of our Enterprise Architecture Framework was a necessity to deliver mission-critical, real-time information from our vast diversity of application and data sources. Following a rigorous 18-month evaluation involving more than a dozen alternatives, Fiorano's SOA Platform was selected to implement the Coast Guard's SOA solutions", said Steve Munson, Chief of Enterprise Engineering Services, United States Coast Guard Operations Systems Center
The LRIT System powered by Fiorano software helps the US Coast Guard track every vessel in US coastal waters that weighs more than 300 tons through a peer-to-peer, real-time distributed network of over 6,000 ship transponders, powered by the Fiorano Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). These ships are slated to automatically report their position to their Flag Administration every six hours, with ship transponders emitting critical signals every 3 seconds. "As this initiative scales, it could become one of the largest ESB deployments in the world", said Atul Saini, CEO, Fiorano.
While the Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) was proposed by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London during the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the LRIT regulation and computer system will allow the USCG to receive information about all vessels within 1,000 nautical miles (1,900 km) of US territory. In January 2009, the United States of America became one of the first SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea) Contracting Governments to implement a National Data Centre and comply with the LRIT regulation.
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