Maretron INTERNET PROTOCOL GATEWAY IPG100 - Manual (Page 5)

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1 General
1.1 Introduction
Congratulations on your purchase of the Maretron Internet Protocol Gateway (IPG100).
Maretron has designed and built your gateway to the highest standards for years of reliable,
dependable, and accurate service.
The Internet Protocol Gateway (IPG100) lets you connect Maretron black boxes (MBB100’s),
Maretron touch screens (DSM800’s), PC’s, Mac’s, tablets, or smartphones to an NMEA 2000
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network so you can monitor and control your vessel using Maretron’s N2KView
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software. The
conventional way of viewing NMEA 2000
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information is with a display on the vessel that is
directly connected to an NMEA 2000
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network, but with the IPG100, you are not limited to
direct connected displays. With the IPG100, you can use any device running N2KView
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software to monitor and control your vessel from onboard or ashore.
The IPG100 has an NMEA 2000
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and an Ethernet LAN (Local Area Network) port for
exchanging information between the onboard NMEA 2000
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network and Internet Protocol (IP)
enabled devices using conventional technology such as routers, switches, and wireless
modems. In addition, the IPG100 includes a USB port used for connecting Maretron’s
hardware license key. The hardware license key is used to enable remote devices running
N2KView
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software. For example, if you purchase a hardware license key with three
N2KView
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licenses, you can run N2KView
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at the helm, another on a handheld device
connected via Wi-Fi, and another at home on your PC or Mac with an Internet connection back
to the vessel. The licenses are floating, so if you were to shut down N2KView
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running at
home, you could fire up the third N2KView
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license on the vessel.
Figure 1 – IPG100 Network Diagram
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