Description

The current marine industry standard. All current Raymarine MFDs are NMEA2000 certified. The standard utilizes the CAN (Control Area Network) design developed by Bosch for the automotive market but with messages/sentence appropriate for the marine industry. A multi-talker, multi-listener approach using serial data at moderate date rates (250 kbps). Under the NMEA standard, manufacturers can use the cable/connector design of their choice so long as it conforms to certain requirements. Created for the factory automation industry, DeviceNet has been approved by the NMEA for NMEA 2000 installations.