Comments for 4G For Yachts - Alan Spicer Marine Telecom http://blog.marinetelecom.net ASMT: Marine Communications, Computers, Networks Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:50:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on This Little Piggy Comes to Operating Systems and … Are you ‘App’y now? by admin http://blog.marinetelecom.net/2012/10/19/this-little-piggy-comes-to-operating-systems-and-are-you-appy-now/#comment-21338 admin Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:50:10 +0000 http://blog.marinetelecom.net/2012/10/19/this-little-piggy-comes-to-operating-systems-and-are-you-appy-now/#comment-21338 On Facebook I did:

Forget your troubles and just get ‘App’y you better chase your cares (and non-Apps) away … See the next post. Sorry I could resist the Come on Get Happy pun.

]]> Comment on All communication circuits have a backhaul … Amateur Radio does NOT by admin http://blog.marinetelecom.net/2010/02/05/all-communication-circuits-have-a-backhaul-amateur-radio-does-not/#comment-327 admin Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:20:15 +0000 http://blog.marinetelecom.net/2010/02/05/all-communication-circuits-have-a-backhaul-amateur-radio-does-not/#comment-327 Hi Grady, thanks for the comment. I guess that’s true that to communicate from a remote to a corporate office, or between two corporate offices, or even between two mobile stations … as long as you don’t need to call a number on the PSTN or communication with Internet services other than what your company or organization provides, then no backhaul would be needed. In a way it’s like two ham stations with multiple microphones on either end, or in this case telephones and/or computers. As long as you don’t consider the satellites in space as part of the infrastructure then this works. Of course it’s doubtful that anything would happen typically to satellites in space (unless your name is Globalstar) Also as long as any infrastructure remains up that allows calls to the PSTN and connectivity to the Internet at the LES then that stuff is fine as well. I guess typically if something weather related happened it would affect only one area of the world. I believe that some satellite systems have more than one LES – which would give you the capability to switch to an alternate and keep on communicating.

Anyway thanks again for the comments.

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alan spicer – ka4udx

]]> Comment on All communication circuits have a backhaul … Amateur Radio does NOT by grady http://blog.marinetelecom.net/2010/02/05/all-communication-circuits-have-a-backhaul-amateur-radio-does-not/#comment-326 grady Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:02:25 +0000 http://blog.marinetelecom.net/2010/02/05/all-communication-circuits-have-a-backhaul-amateur-radio-does-not/#comment-326 The Backhaul issues do come up time to time in the satellite world. The military use this but also business with corporate offices all over the world. The way it’s done with as little backhaul as possible is, private static IP’s. In this way, as long as the satellite and the earth station (SAS) have power, you can communicate via voice or data from sat terminal to sat terminal without ever going to the internet or phone lines. In fact, that is the requirement when these folks come in is “we want to communicate in the event that there is NO internet and NO phone lines anywhere in the world”. Of course, I wouldn’t mind having a MSR8000 HF transceiver with a wideband antenna either.

]]> Comment on I have a wish list item already for Cradlepoint MBR1000 (for marine particularly) by admin http://blog.marinetelecom.net/2009/09/04/i-have-a-wish-list-item-already-for-cradlepoint-mbr1000-for-marine-particularly/#comment-133 admin Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:13:31 +0000 http://blog.marinetelecom.net/2009/09/04/i-have-a-wish-list-item-already-for-cradlepoint-mbr1000-for-marine-particularly/#comment-133 Regarding my article and WISH ITEM – Cradlepoint rep had the following to say in response:

As for your failover/failback question. You are right, if you set cellular as primary and Ethernet as backup, it will failover to Ethernet, but won’t failback to cellular. You can failover and back between cellular modems, but if Ethernet WAN is available, the router assumes it is primary. It’s a very narrow market that would want any Ethernet connection as a backup so it’s not a priority to write new firmware to support that function. Once 4G rolls out across more of the US, I imagine it would be put on our roadmap.

]]> Comment on Google Voice Can Sneak onto iPhone by admin http://blog.marinetelecom.net/2009/08/10/google-voice-can-sneak-onto-iphone/#comment-111 admin Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:06:58 +0000 http://blog.marinetelecom.net/2009/08/10/google-voice-can-sneak-onto-iphone/#comment-111 Re: Google Voice Can Sneak onto iPhone

Google should have done this in the first place.
After all, Google was the one to state that web-apps are the future and that native apps are no longer needed. Duh. Eat crow, Google.

Yah but that wouldn’t have been any fun. They’ve gotta try and get an APP into the APP STORE first. That’s like a requirement. Without that they wouldn’t get all the free promotion from being rejected.
You stir up a little controversy and Bada Bing – Viral Marketing. Plus you wake up the FCC, etc. and maybe it gets let in as an App later after all. So who’s eating crow now????

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