Furuno DP-6 manual Maritex Operation, What is MARITEX?

7. MARITEX OPERATION

This chapter provides an overview to the MARITEX system. For detailed information, consult your MARITEX Traffic Manual.

7.1 What is MARITEX?

INTERNATIONAL TELEX NETWORK

STORE-AND-

FORWARD

DIRECT

DIALING

MULTI-

ADDRESS

INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE NETWORK

SEMI-FAX

MARITEX, an acronym meaning MARItime TEleX, is a world- wide, round-the-clock, fully automatic and computerized network for maritime radiotelex. The MARITEX system is operated jointly by the Telecom Administrations of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. The system consists of the Central Com- puter System in Gothenburg, Sweden, run with two high technol- ogy computers, and sub-stations in Scandinavia, Panama, Manila, and Argentina. The Central System does all the message switching and co-ordinates the sub-station resources.

	REMOTE-CONTROLLED			PARTICIPATING
				SHIPS
	RADIO CIRCUITS
			SUB-STATION
			PANAMA
MARITEX		SUB-STATION
CENTRAL		SCANDINAVIA
SYSTEM
SYSTEM
CONTROL		SUB-STATION
			MANILA

SUB-STATION

ARGENTINA

Figure 7-1 MARITEX system and services

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