What does that mean for a fully NMEA 2000 boat? And therein lies the problem that I have not seen one commentator mention: If there is a significant problem with the NMEA 2000 backbone, every piece of gear on the boat dependant on it stops working. You see, the thing is that many devices use the NMEA backbone not only to communicate with other devices, but to communicate with their own sensors. You knew there was a “but” coming, right? Most every techy type in the marine journalism community has been waxing eloquent about how cool this is. For those of you who are not aware, NMEA is a standard backbone cabling system that allows you to connect every piece of electronic gear on your boat together, regardless of what company manufactured each piece. I was just reading an article on the NMEA 2000 marine network standard over at the excellent Ocean Navigator blog.
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