Project - NMEA 2000 Network - Part 2

Why solely choose NMEA 2000 (N2K) for marine data communications and devices?  Some of the reasons are standardization (upgrading single components, not complete systems, over time), redundancy, getting the best solution from the most appropriate vendor, and ease of installation. Of course we are assuming N2K will be around for quite some time  Based on my research it should be supported for 20+ years or more still to come.

Furuno and Maretron play nice together sharing a N2K data backbone connection.