In parallel to Leapfrog, for the first time in the industry's history, RCCL launched four ships in
2001. This was a huge project for IT with Leapfrog going on, since a $10 million IT investment had to
be installed on each of the four new ships. The investment included not only technology in the back
of the house with 35 servers, three networks, thousands of components, property management,
satellite connections, and point of sale, but also technology in front of RCCL's guests with services