Spire Maritime is pleased to announce the launch of new versions of all Spire Canada (formerly exactEarth) Services.
To meet the requirements for processing increasing data volumes from an expanding set of data sources for a growing client base, Spire Maritime is migrating the services below to new implementations, on an improved and scalable cloud architecture from April 2024.
If you currently access any of the services listed, then from early April 2024 they will be served from servers on different TCP/IP network addresses than at present. Please ensure that any firewall rules or other networking restrictions are updated to allow access to the new Spire servers.
Service: Uniproxy
DNS addresses: • uniproxy.exactearth.com • uniproxy-1.exactearth.com • uniproxy-2.exactearth.com
New TCP/IP addresses: • 54.71.176.173 • 52.13.91.114 • 54.200.122.187
Spire Maritime are removing the satellite Name information from Messages API responses by the 1st May 2024.
We are writing to give you notice about the removal of the satellite IDs from the Messages API. Satellite ID values are currently returned as the source value in the AIS message records returned by the Messages API. Satellite ID values will be replaced with the label satellite.
This is demonstrated in the sample message below from the Messages API.
The source value changing from a satellite ID value FM88 to the label satellite.
The deadline for this change is 1st May 2024
In the coming weeks we will be issuing new tokens to use with the Messages API that hide satellite ID and can be used to test before swapping to the new configuration. Please prepare to make this change as soon as possible and in plenty time to prevent disruption to your data supply.
In case you would like to discuss how this will impact your service then please reply to this email and we can investigate it further with you
Resolved -
We observe a lower volume of AIS messages for one of our terrestrial AIS sources. This might especially affect the region of China. No issues with satellite or dynamic data sources.
Mar 22, 10:00 UTC