Partnership between STEP and Norwegian Cruise Line

Engineering Connectivity At Sea

See how STEP transformed connectivity aboard the Norwegian Cruise Line® Aqua™ with one of the largest Extreme Networks deployments ever completed at sea.

All Aboard A Floating City

With her 2025 Christening, Norwegian Aqua™ is not only the newest and most spacious ship sailing the Caribbean—it’s also a true “floating city,” home to 6,000 passengers and crew, complete with a working hospital, industrial facilities, and essential utilities.
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Engineering Excellence at Sea

To bring superior guest experiences on their travels to NCL’s many destinations required a groundbreaking Network deployment with STEP’s...
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Long-Term Strategic Value

Tailored Tech for Every Inch

With so many individual environments and thousands of secured devices connected at any given time, meant that there wasn’t one wireless configuration that would work everywhere – it had to be tailored to each specific environment of the ship – in very tight physical dimensions – with 2,000 switches and 4,000 access points.
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Innovation Born from Necessity

There are a number of technologies that are now part of Extreme Networks Fabric that only exist because STEP had to invent them to satisfy the unique needs of NCL’s Aqua. Learn more about what it takes to provide reliable enterprise-grade service in a challenging “at-sea” environment by downloading the full story that begins in an Italian shipyard 5 months before launch.

6,000 People. 4,000 Access Points. One Seamless Network.

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