Want AIS on my Jeanneau; Raymarine AIS700 or Veper XB-8000?

[Paul L]

Originally Posted by goboatingnow

Yes but in terms of its ais functionality it’s heavily integrated , as opposed to adding large chunks of features that only appeal to high end customers. . I’ve always disliked Vespers policy in that regard, but clearly they don’t want to play in the rough and tumble end of the market largely because they are not a complete nav systems provider

If you want to call it heavily integrated, that's fine. We'll just call the Cortex heavily, heavily integrated. Putting a feature into the box is much higher integration than connecting it over a network.

Vesper has done an excellent job competing in the lower and middle end market historically. I suspect that they put all their engineers respurces into the Cortex system and didn't have much left over for the lower end move from class B to B+.
Personally I'd like to see them in both matkets, as they often offer some very nice featires.

[goboatingnow]

For price /functionality the SRT platform is hard to beat.