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The N2KView

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 Vessel Monitoring and Control System is based on a client/server architecture.  

In this context, a server is defined as a component that provides services over a network and a 
client is defined as a station that requests and uses those services. 
   
Within the N2KView

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 System, there is one server (called N2KServer

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) and one or more 

stations or clients (called N2KView

®

). The server component is implemented by either an 

IPG100 or N2KServer

®

 software running on a Windows PC, and the station or client 

components are implemented by the N2KView

®

 software.  N2KView

®

 software may run on a 

Windows PC, Mac, or Maretron’s MBB100 or DSM800. Mobile versions of N2KView

®

software 

are available for iPod, iPhone, iPad and Android devices. The service offered by the server to 
the stations (clients) is access to the NMEA 2000

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 network data that the server receives from 

the NMEA 2000

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 network via its NMEA 2000

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 gateway. The network over which this service is 

offered is implemented as a TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) network, 
which is discussed in the next section. 

N2KServer

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 may run on a Windows PC (using Maretron’s USB100 gateway - see Figure 2 and 

Figure 3) or N2KServer

®

 may run directly on an IPG100 (see Figure 4). 

 

 

Figure 2 shows an example of a Local Area Network (LAN) connection including the PC to 
NMEA 2000

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network connection through a USB100 gateway. A copy of N2KServer

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 must run 

on the PC connected to the USB100, and an N2KView

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 Hardware License Key must be 

plugged in to the PC to supply sufficient licenses for the maximum number of simultaneously 
connected clients. N2KView

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 clients may run on either the PC connected to the USB100, or to 

another PC connected to the router, or to a laptop or mobile device connected wirelessly.