I60 cabling

With an I60 wind it can be wired directly to the wind vane or the wind vane connected to a wind pod or a ICT-5 and the data feed via STNG.

My question: if the wind vane transducer is hard wired to the I60 ( analogue ) and the I60 is connected via STng to a network, will all of the data flow to network from the I60 be the same as if the transducer was connected to the network via a wind pod or a ICT-5?

Is there a preferred method, given that I am replacing a St60 wind and the wiring is place from the vane. I wish to maximize the features available both to and from the I60.

Thanks

David