Letter to a Friend
There are around a thousand people in the room and more are watching from distant rooms in London and Shanghai. By the large windows you can easily see the Corcovado, arm wide open, the well known symbol of Rio; everywhere there are hanging flags mentioning “SubOptic 2020 World forum”, in the same style as the one of the 2016 Olympics.
Jean Devos My dear friend, I look forward to SubOptic 2013 where I will have the pleasure to meet many old fellows including you my friend. Not sure I will learn a lot. I suspect the papers, oral or posters, will carefully avoid unveiling anything which could be useful to the competition .And in such a family event people always hesitate to express their differences or disagreements It will most likely be my very last SubOptic but you are a bit younger than me and I can predict , without any great risk , the 60
drastic changes that you are going to live in a very near future . The events will force SubOptic to operate the transformation that the present management has not got the gut or the vision to launch. Listen to my prediction: That day I see you comfortably seated in a huge and brand new auditorium. The speakers are far down on the stage but you can see them very well on the large screen of your armchair. You have actively contributed to the debate by raising questions using your inter-active tablet!
The three eminent panelists are sitting at an electronic table: The president of the SubOptic association, the general manager of the global network regulatory body and the general delegate of the Network Users. The discussion is moderated by the head of Petabit Consulting. The subject of the debate is “Reshaping the global network” During the coffee break, responding to your questions, the guy sitting next to you, bearing a badge from the Indian Tata Group, explained to you the recent evolutions “Following the Rogucci and Terabit consulting reports, but also several serious network interruptions, the States could not stay without reactions. SubOptic was still a very informal structure not having transformed itself into the industry body speaking for the industry and making sure the industry was building the best and safest possible global network The creation of a regulatory body (GNR) could only be expected and was imposed to the