Welcome to Alan Spicer Marine Telecom - Boaters and Telecom Video Page. Here are a few videos for fun, entertainment, and education.

I have moved the embedded TheBoaters.tv videos and the Telecom TV videos here because some users have reported that they could not find my contact information. Please contact me at: Telephone: 954-683-3426, or Email: a_spicer (at) bellsouth.net or aspicer (at) telecom.dyndns.biz. (Change the "(at)" to the "@" and remove any spaces and parenthesis when you use those email addresses.) Thanks again.


	Voice / IP Fax / Internet Tri-band WCDMA (850/1900/2100) Quad band GSM (850/900/1800/1900) HSDPA/EDGE/GPRS Data RJ11 Interface USB 2.0 Interface Ethernet Port 4 port 10/100 Mbit Router WiFi 802.11

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Alan Spicer Blog is Here and make sure you visit the Main Site: http://www.marinetelecom.net wether you are on land or on a yacht that goes to sea. We're all about communications and Internet Access, and saving you money on it in the process. DSL and better for land, and High Speed Broadband for yachts. Stop in, learn more, and give me a call!

(Photo Cube Effect Courtesy of: Myspace Photo Cube) Thank You to All of My Customers. Visitors can watch the following Videos, such as The Boaters TV, right here on my web site - while you browse my site and hopefully learn something about Marine Telecommunications and Business and Home Communications as well. Feel free to call or email me if you would like my consulting or installation services. Internet Access for Yachts is my Specialty, but not my only service. If you have a question, please ask. Alan Spicer Telecom is all about Communications both on land and At Sea. Because of this AST has to keep up with Telecom and Information Technology. AST now also features some weekly Telecom TV Video Broadcasts here on the web site. I hope you find them as interesting and as informative as I do. AST would like to help both entertain you as well as educated you. And hopefully to help you save some money on your communications on your boat or in your business.

Index to Videos

Fun Yacht Videos

The Boaters.TV Videos

Telecom Parody - Before you become too serious with Telecom, have a laugh at this parody video. It's really F'd.

Telecom TV Videos

Outside Plant TV (the people that really make Telecom work!)

Back to Alan Spicer Marine Telecom

My apologies... Youtube pulled every FUN video that I had linked here. I don't think I did anything wrong. Just standard embeds that they offer on their web site for videos. Moving along, to The Boaters TV...

News Bulletin: Julie Perry of Theboaters.com has been in an accident (hit-and-run) on New Years Even (early New Years Day). Please see my blog for more on this. Julie and a friend were riding in a Bicycle Rickshaw ride when an unknown motor vehicle hit the Bicycle Rickshaw ride on Las Olas Boulevard Bridge in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Reportedly Julie and friend were seriously injured. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Julie and her friend with hopes of a full and speedy recovery. If anyone has information about this hit-and-run accident please contact me or local authorities in Fort Lauderdale Florida.

Thank You.

--- Alan Spicer of Alan Spicer Marine Telecom.

Monday 03-31-2008 Episode of TheBoaters.TV 118: Clean Boating Act, Ithaa, The Great Loop

A Special Edition from TheBoaters.TV The Boaters - How to use the Navigational Aids Explore Page

Friday 03-28-2008 Episode of TheBoaters.TV 117: Queen of the North, BoatTest Reports, Fishmaster

Wednesday 03-26-2008 Episode of TheBoaters.TV 116: The Mad Mariner Report, Boating Tax Deductions, BoatU.S

Added: January 04, 2008 TheBoaters.TV Our Way of Saying Thanks for 2007

TheBoaters.com would like to extend our gratitude to the 9000 plus users for providing the images in this video. Most of all, for their continued support in helping us build this online community because without you the site would not exist.

Wednesday 10-10-2007 Episode of TheBoaters.TV #50: TheBoaters TV GOLDEN Anniversary! Highlights & Bloopers Note: The Alan Spicer Marine Telecom Blog was mentioned again (and it wasn't a blooper!) Thanks again Boaters.TV - I'm still watching, even though I get busy sometimes. Thankfully I get your Blog Post emails on Myspace.com that reminds me I should be updating this page.

Wednesday 08-29-2007 Episode of TheBoaters.TV
Alan Spicer Telecom / Alan Spicer Marine Telecom gets a mention in this episode, along with Fractional Yachts (see Monocle Yachts Link back on the main page for more about that.)

Previous Episodes can be seen on Theboaters.tv and on Youtube.com.

1 hr 28 min 32 sec - Jul 17, 2007 Average rating: (5 ratings) Description: Vint Cerf addresses the June 29th meeting of the Internet Society's Organizational Member Advisory Council on a range of topics, notably: - Current status of Internet deployment and usage - IPv4 address space run-out, and the need to stimulate IPv6 deployment - Issues surrounding IDN introduction at the top level - DNSSEC deployment - ISOC's role in addressing important Internet issues outside of ICANN's specific mandate

Telecom TV Newsdesk week-ending 7th December 2007
Happy Birthday SMS, 15 years old this week... Is video convergence the key to mobile TV success... GSM all at sea.

Telecom TV Newsdesk week-ending 30th November 2007
BREAKING NEWS: CEO resignations at both Motorola and O2/Telefonica Europe... NFC: The key to opening the Mobile Wallet Reducing chip sets for cheaper, power efficient smartphones... Outsourcing making a come back

Telecom TV Newsdesk week-ending 23 November 2007
Full report from the Mobile Asia Congress in Macau... The demise of mobile WiMAX...? Ambitious targets to bring fibre to the home.

Telecom TV - The Main Agenda: WiBro, WiMAX, Why Wireless? Back when "Wi" began, it was all about Wi-Fi, a technology that enabled the World to connect to the internet without the hassle of wires. But beyond this, it provided nothing new, distance from the router was limited to several metres and mobility from one Wi-Fi zone into another was never going to be seamless. Because of these factors, the 3G operators of the World slept well in their beds, Wi-Fi kept the people happy, but was no threat to established mobile network data revenues. The recent development of WiMAX and WiBro however, has the wireless world shaking in their boots. It combines Wi-Fi ease of use with the benefits of 3G and that is really stepping on some toes. The race for the future of wireless has now truly begun, but does it really matter who wins? Consumers will always see fixed-line as the infrastructure behind the web and any wireless solutions as a useful added extra. So having spent so much time and money on developing 21st Century Networks, why wireless?

Name: Stephen McFadden, Richard Porter-Sparks, Stephen Lowe
Title: Advisor, WiMAX Manager UK, Chairman
Company: Urban WiMAX, Nortel, Broadband Wireless Association
Recorded: 23/10/2007 - London Wall Studios

Telecom TV - Mobile Broadband Growth
The wide-scale deployment of HSPA technology in 3G networks is finally enabling true mobile broadband performance.

Telecom TV - Iridium Redux (Marine Iridium, Iridium vs Inmarsat)
Despite a very chequered past, from grand satellite schemes to a descent into bankruptcy, Iridium has re-invented itself and its new CEO believes there are plenty of wireless opportunities still available to the satellite company.

Telecom TV - WiFi Security
With an increasing number of individuals and businesses relying on wireless networks, the security of devices and data becomes even more difficult and important.

Telecom TV - Convergence Truths. (What are people doing with Video and PC Computers and Laptops. They're multi-tasking in the Living Room while watching Plasma or Big Screen TV in the background. In other rooms many are using PC or Laptop as a primary Video Streaming or TV / Movie Device. How do mobile devices fit in. How does this all affect advertising on content.)
A new convergence study from legal firm Olswang reveals that 70 per cent of consumers surveyed have no interest in mobile TV, a far higher figure than operators and vendors would have us believe. People are more interested in viewing longer content and that will not fit in most mobile journies. People also have other means of viewing video content mobile such as DVD players. (I don't know how well they looked at the yacht marine market but then again they typically have Satellite TV to the Main Salon as well as to all of the cabins of owners, guests, and crews. Yachts are definately an interesting portion of the market where it comes to convergence of voice, data, and video technologies. Perhaps they are a bit under served or under-surveyed anyway. ASMT said that.)

Ouside Plant (OSP TV) OSP TV Interview With Channell - OSP TV interview at OSP EXPO 2007 - Copper Outside Plant - for Triple-Play Voice, Video, Data. Getting the Plant Data Ready, Broadband Ready. Older cables cannot pass data at the necessary rates, and the connectors need broadband capability.

Ouside Plant (OSP TV) OSP TV Interview With Alcatel Lucent - OSP TV Interview at OSP Expo 2007 - Compelling Services delivered Anytime Anywhere. End customers on their network are demanding more and more functionality and more mobility...

Ouside Plant (OSP TV) OSP TV Interview With Emtelle - OSP TV Interview at OSP Expo 2007 - Air Blown Fiber - instead of doing a Fiber Splice, we do a Tube Splice. The distances you can get by Air Blown installation are approximately 2500ft to a mile. At speeds of 100 to 150 feet a minute. You can install almost 6000 feet of fiber in an hour. (For those visitors that don't do outside plant, Fiber Optic carries most of your Internet and Voice Telephone Signals these days in your providers network and in the network backbone systems. Fiber-to-the Home, Premises, Curb, and other initiatives are bringing fiber, along with higher bandwidths and speeds, closer to - if not exactly to your own network.)

Ouside Plant (OSP TV) OSP TV Interview With Fujitsu - OSP TV Interview at OSP Expo 2007 - Indoor and Outdoor Solutions for Wireless and Wireline parts of the business, from loop agreggation within the central office to cell site interface. - Outside Plant Fab Cabinet shown here - Expandability, Thermal Management, System Management, and Sufficient Battery Capacity for DS1, DS3, and Ethernet, or Fiber Services.) * Did any of us ever wonder how Cellular or Telephone and Internet Services stay up after a severe storm such as a hurricane that knocks out the power? The outside plant and infrastructure guys are the unsung heros of keeping this stuff operating under the most demanding conditions.

Ouside Plant (OSP TV) OSP TV Interview With QC Data - OSP TV Interview at OSP Expo 2007 - Outside Plant Design and Data Services. Engineering Support Services, Fiber to the Premise - Fiber to the Node design; anything that the outside plant engineer needs to support their operation.

Ouside Plant (OSP TV) OSP TV Interview With Grant Traill General Manager of AT&T Network Operations out of San Ramone. I started in this business when Touch Tone was the state-of-the-art, so for me watching video over three screens and seeing all that we believed come true over the course of the years is an amazing thing for me... and I'm just glad to be part of it.

And now for a funny parody on TELECOM. I thought this video was funny if viewed generically. It was really aimed at TELECOM Company New Zealand (NZ). "It's used confusion as its chief marketing tool. Telecom have tricked us and that's really F'd. This phone's costing me a fortune. And I can't get access to the Internet. Finally we're gonna get what we want. Because we're telling Telecom... We're leaving. Soooo, are you coming with us? (Were all going to call Alan Spicer Telecom and get the TRUTH.) If you are pissed off at Telecom, do something about it. Close your accounts and take your business somewhere else."
Ok people remember this is a parody.

More OSP videos are available at: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=osptv&p=r and through OSP Magazine at: http://www.ospmag.com/expo/tv/

Alan Spicer Telecom is interested in Outside Plant because we are also a provider of DSL, T1, T3, Metropolitan Ethernet, and other Communications and Internet Services for Homes and Businesses. Please see the section on our main page: http://telecom.dyndns.biz for Land Based Services. Obviously we also do Marine Communications, however we don't want to leave out the home offices / business offices of our Marine and other prospective customers. Alan Spicer Telecom wants to be your one-stop-shop for Communications on Land and at Sea. There are definately a lot of things going on with Fiber Optic Transmission for Faster Speeds and Higher Bandwidth, which will be imporant for the Multimedia aspects of Communications such as Video. FTTx they call it because there are various levels of how close the fiber is to your premises. If you are not right on top of Fiber there are also other ways to bring that bandwidth into your location. Anyway, it is very interesting when we can start talking about providing 100 Megabits per Second and 1000 Megabits per Second (GigaBit) to a customers premises. That sure beats the current DSL, T1, and T3; for those that need it and can afford it. The pricing can be quite a bit less (per Mb/s) than the other methods of acquiring connectivity and bandwidth.

Alan Spicer (Marine) Telecom Telecommunications for the Motor Yacht, Small-Medium Business, and Small Office Home Office - Computer Networking, Telephone, Fax, and High Speed Internet Access - Consulting, Installation, and Service

Marine High Speed (Broadband) Internet Access, Marine Cellular (Internet - Voice - Fax), Marine Satellite (Internet - Voice - Fax), Marine WiFi Wireless 802.11a/b/g/n (Onboard wireless and external WiFi Hotspot Internet - Voice - Fax), Email, Web, Remote Security Camera Monitoring, Yacht Computer and Network Systems and Services, Yacht WiFi Amplifier Systems, Yacht Cellular Amplifier and Repeater Systems, Yacht Internet Shared onboard for Crew, Guests, and Owners.

About: Telecom, a shortening of the word telecommunication. Telecommunication refers to communication over long distances. Telecommunication covers all forms of distance and/or conversion of the original communications, including radio, telegraphy, television, telephone, data communication and computer networking.

MARITIME TELECOMMUNICATIONS Although telecommunications technology is improving quickly, people at sea do not have access to the same telecommunications infrastructure people ashore have. Mariners not only need to access international shore telephone and data public switched networks, but also, they need to be able to communicate with other ships of any size or nationality, to receive and send urgent maritime safety information, and to send or receive distress alerts in an emergency to or from rescue coordination centers ashore and nearby ships anywhere in the world. Unlike cellular telephones and land mobile radios used in the United States, maritime telecommunications systems must be internationally interoperable, even in United States coastal waters, where numerous foreign ships sail. Bringing new telecommunications technology to mariners can be difficult, since to be interoperable, the technology must be affordable, acceptable and available to most ships and maritime countries.

Alan Spicer Marine Telecom
Telephone: (954) 683-3426 / (954) 977-5245, Skype Call Button Below
located near Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA

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Marine Environments Served
(and Small Office Home Office, Small-Medium Business)

"Communications Technology Consultant"
"Voice, Multimedia, Fax, and Data for Marine/Yachts and Small-Medium Business"

Marine Internet Services, Marine Computers, Marine Computer Networking, Marine High Speed Internet, Saturn B, Fleet 33, Fleet 55, Fleet 77, KVH, NERA, Sea Tel, WAVECALL, VSAT, Direcway, GSM, GPRS, Internet Connection Sharing, Firewalls for Yachts, Routers for Yachts, Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Network Hardware, 802.11 Wireless Networks, Computer Upgrades, Computer Repairs, Computer Replacements, Laptop Computers, File Sharing, Voice, Fax, and Data for Yachts / Marine.

Systems installed on Marine and Motor Yachts. Gain Omni Directional Marine Antennas for Cellular Broadband and 802.11 B and G WiFi access. Share these connections with all computers onboard via wired CAT5 or Wireless Access Points or Routers. Integration of these two new services into existing Satellite based marine and motor yacht networks.

Please visit the Main Web Page here: http://www.marinetelecom.net