EXORDIUM BY WAYNE NIELSEN
Welcome to Issue 86, our Global Outlook edition. I spent the last few days mulling over what to talk about for my part in the opening submarine cable session at PTC ’16. I am normally quite happy to sit quietly in the audience and listen to others opine about our industry, and learn a few things in the process. But instead, around Halloween, the estimable Paul McCann contacted me and asked if I would be willing to participate in the session. I thought about it for a while and then that I would accept before he could revoke the invitation. Then I proceeded to forget about the commitment until sometime after Christmas. So, the new year came and went, and I returned to the
office that Monday from the end-of-year sabbatical from that day-job, and to the unwritten presentation that I had still not really started. But a funny thing happened. One of the benefits of being the titular SubTel Forum head is that I get to see articles in their draft stage, and, low and behold, a couple of articles from a couple of really smart guys came through the door. It wasn’t that they wrote the presentation for me, but instead enhanced a thought I had been having, thus allowing me to go in the direction I wanted. And of course, accreditations abound within. So what you might ask did I conclude as an outlook for the industry?
That, as Dr. Seuss once opined, “You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.” So, as always, should you be attending PTC ’16, please come to the submarine cable session and our SubTel Forum booth to say hello; and of course, save me a seat at the mai tai bar!
Wayne Nielsen is the Founder and Publisher of Submarine Telecoms Forum, and previously in 1991, founded and published “Soundings”, a print magazine developed for then BT Marine. In 1998, he founded and published for SAIC the magazine, “Real Time”, the industry’s first electronic magazine. He has written a number of industry papers and articles over the years, and is the author of two published novels, Semblance of Balance (2002, 2014) and Snake Dancer’s Song (2004). +1.703.444.2527 wnielsen@subtelforum.com