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Appendix A- Client/Server Architecture
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 generally one server (called N2KServer
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) and one or
more stations or clients (called N2KView
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). The server component is implemented by either an
IPG100 or N2KServer
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software running on a Windows PC, and the station or client
components are implemented by the N2KView
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software. N2KView
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software may run on a
Windows PC, Mac, or Maretron
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’s MBB100 or DSM800. Mobile versions of N2KView
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software are available for iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad and most 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.