LinkQuest

LinkQuest Inc., an American high-tech company, develops and manufactures precision acoustic instruments and related underwater sensing and communication systems. Its business spans offshore oil exploration, construction, drilling, survey work, environmental study, and other oceanographic applications. The company manufactures sophisticated underwater acoustic modems, USBL tracking systems, acoustic current profilers, Doppler velocity logs, and multibeam echosounders, and it claims to stand as the only company in the world capable of producing all of those categories. A central part of its offering comes from Broadband Acoustic Spread Spectrum, or BASS, technology, which the company puts forward as a new standard for acoustic communication and positioning. Its product line covers underwater communications, navigation, positioning, current measurement, and seabed mapping, with a distinct family of instruments behind each of those functions. SoundLink high-speed acoustic modems see wide use in offshore oil fields and in large underwater acoustic communication networks. TrackLink acoustic tracking systems provide USBL solutions for underwater tracking. FlowQuest acoustic current profilers measure currents and flows in oceans, harbors, lakes, and rivers, while NavQuest Doppler Velocity Logs support the precision navigation and positioning of underwater vehicles. The EchoSweep 300 multibeam echosounder works as a swath bathymetric system for mapping sea floors, inland waterways, and reservoirs, and it serves hydrographic and bathymetric surveys, underwater inspections, dredging, pipeline inspection, and cable-laying. LinkQuest offers positioning systems for demanding underwater environments as well, where confined space, distance, or background noise complicates the acoustics. Its PinPoint LBL acoustic positioning systems target narrowly confined, long-range shallow water, and noisy environments. Its Precision Marine Geodetic System works as an acoustic positioning system with better than 0.5 cm accuracy, and it has been deployed for tsunami and earthquake monitoring and prediction. Across these offerings the company puts weight on robustness, long range, accurate positioning, and integration with third-party sensors and with its own modems. Customer support, product quality, and product performance form important parts of the company's identity.