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The main lesson learnt from the installation of widely distributed VTS integrated systems, is the mandatory need to select from all the information existing at all the levels of the system, the essential parts to be distributed. A lot of information is available, well beyond the traffic data, and must be taken into account. Examples are: Sensitive Water Areas, Meteo Bulletin, Sailing Warnings, Nautical News, Routine Regulations, AIS messages, Radar tracks, Satellite data (optical and radar Earth Observation, AIS, LRIT, VMS). External Systems' integration is performed in order to enable VTMS operators to manipulate heterogeneous data as if they were local to the System. In the same way the relevant data generated internally are exported to remote External Systems with receiver-defined format characteristics and flow timing. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]