Arraycomm has developed a technology called i-Burst that it says can deliver a sustaineddata speed of one megabit per second over distances as far as five miles from the base station, during testing in Sydney, Australia.
The impetus for the creation of a coordinated observing system to provide baseline data and ensure sustained monitoring came from IOC in the late 1980s and resulted in the creating of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) in 1991.