SeaWave & Rydex rmx2 is the complete communications solution for ship owners and managers requiring the ultimate in functionality and flexibility.

Despite its capabilities rmx2 is simple and cost effective to operate - from its carefully engineered user install program and computer based training module to its sophisticated file transfer and task management system - AME.

rmx2 can use Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Lotus Notes or any SMTP/POP3 email client as its messaging interface and will optimize connections via a host of satellite and cellular/GSM networks such as Inmarsat, vSAT, Iridium and GSM.

At its core rmx2 relies upon Rydex’ renowned communications protocol which ensures all email and data traffic is transmitted and received as quickly and efficiently as possible. All transmissions are full duplex, include break-point-restart, message streaming and compression.

rmx2 is designed as a scalable product and contains a host of features to provide commercial benefit to the shipping industry. These additional features make rmx2 the ideal solution for any shipping company and include:

Reporting Database
Today’s shipping fleets place high demands on their email systems, and with those demands comes a need to control and report costs accurately. Rydex’ Reporting database, offers a highly flexible and detailed reporting mechanism for all email and data traffic.

Private Bulletin Board Service
The Private Bulletin Board Service provides a ship owner or manager with a private and secure mechanism to provide corporate information to their ships.

Filtering & Anti-Spam
rmx2 offers a highly flexible filtering system to prevent unnecessary or undesirable email messages reaching the ship. This allows filtering of email traffic to the vessel by user, domain, and message size. Owners and managers can be certain that the only messages they're paying for meet the filtering rules.

Interactive Mail
For additional flexibility and cost control rmx2 offers a means by which the vessel’s crew can control how they receive their email messages. Interactive Mail enables the message headers to be viewed during each transmission and decisions made whether to collect, delete or hold individual mail items.

Remote Web Access
At Rydex, we understand your office and the information needed to maintain your business must travel with you. That’s why Rydex gives ship owners, managers and superintendents, and managers control of their vessel’s email systems whether or not they’re in their offices. Rydex’ rmx2 product suite provides remote web access to the shore-based hub environment enabling remote monitoring of the vessels’ email traffic via the Internet or corporate.

LAN
Today’s ships are increasingly like floating branch offices, with many onboard email users. Rydex rmx2 supports Local Area Networks (LAN) on the vessel allowing incoming email messages and address book updates to be sent directly to the recipient’ s computer and mail items to flow freely between onboard workstations.

Crew Email
Crew email is now becoming vital in attracting and retaining motivated seagoing staff. Rydex of fers a number of ways in which crew member’ s can have access to email with the minimum of disruption to the ship operating company.
Crew email includes local or centralized billing/accounting and control over email messages sent and received by the crew.

AME
AME is a combined automatic file transfer and task launch / management system.
“Pre”and “Post”communication tasks interact with automatic file transfer jobs to facilitate remote collection and placement of files and launch of third party (e.g.import and export) processes.

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