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LAUNCHING THE SUBTEL FORUM AUTHORS INDEX BY KIERAN CLARK
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ccess to knowledge is one of the most powerful tools in the submarine telecoms industry. Whether you’re tracking market trends, researching technology shifts, or simply trying to find that article you read years ago, having the right information at your fingertips matters. Over the years, many in our community have asked us the same question: “Is there an easy way to find every article by a specific author or company?” Until now, the answer has been a frustrating not really. Readers had to dig through back issues manually, flipping pages and hoping the article they were looking for wasn’t buried too deep. We took the first major step toward solving this problem in January with the launch of our Magazine Archive — a clean, visual catalog of all SubTel Forum issues since inception.
It provided a quick way to browse by year, open PDFs, and rediscover past content. But while the archive was a huge leap forward, it wasn’t enough. Users still needed a way to dive deeper — to search within those issues at the article level. That’s what led us to the next evolution: the creation of a powerful, flexible, and fully searchable Authors Index — a tool designed to catalog every article, every author, every company, and every major topic covered in our magazine’s 20-year history. This wasn’t a small undertaking. It required reimagining how our content is organized, extracted, and delivered. But the result is something we believe will change how readers engage with SubTel Forum — whether they’re doing in-depth industry research, exploring legacy systems, or just looking up a name from a past conference panel.
MAY 2025 | ISSUE 142
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