Data Transmission Network
DTN, formerly known as Data Transmission Network, is a subscription-based service for the delivery of real-time weather, agricultural and commodity market information. The company is based in Omaha, Nebraska. As of June 2011 Schneider Electric acquired Telvent. Telvent DTN is the name of the service that is owned by its parent company Schneider Electric. DTN’s primary users are agriculture producers, professionals in weather-sensitive industries and commodities and futures traders.
Telvent DTN provides information to professionals in agriculture, refined fuels, commodities and futures trading, public safety, aviation, turf, recreation, construction and transportation.
The company delivers market information, commodity cash prices, industry news and analysis, and location-specific weather for more than 120,000 subscribers working in agriculture, refined fuels, market trading, and weather forecasting.
DTN is especially targeted toward those interested in trading in markets such as futures and commodities, and is popular among many farmers as well for its real-time weather data. Meteorlogix is a part of Telvent DTN which forecasts for several divisions of weather, including Aviation, Energy, Transportation and the PGA Tour.
Meteorlogix is the weather division of Telvent DTN that forecasts location-specific weather for several industries. Meteorlogix is the official forecaster for the PGA Tour.
DTN/The Progressive Farmer is an agricultural information services provider to the North American corn, soybean, and cattle complex.
Based in Omaha, Nebraska DTN was founded in 1984 as Dataline, later changing their name to Data Transmission Network. In the company’s early days, DTN delivered data to its customers solely by way FM radio broadcast, later adding dedicated, one-way Ku-Band satellite-based computer terminals using small dish antennas mounted at the customers’ site. Some customers received their DTN signal via the vertical blanking interval (VBI) of the PBS television broadcast.
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