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WELCOME TO ISSUE 131, OUR REGIONAL NETWORKS AND SUBMARINE NETWORKS WORLD CONFERENCE PREVIEW EDITION!

Vive le Tour!

If it’s July it must be another amazing three weeks of the Tour de France.

This year’s tour is like something not seen in a while where two dominating, powerful riders seem to be fighting amongst themselves levels of capability about the rest. Two thirds through, all eyes are on the Dane and Slovak who are mere seconds apart in cumulative time. The question is will they fight it out to the end where one stands as victor, or will someone else come sweeping by and take it all from under them.

Submarine Networks World Conference

I had the pleasure of attending Submarine Networks EMEA in London in May, which was well attended, informative and well worth the effort to attend. Looking forward, we are thrilled to be traveling to Singapore again in September and attending the Submarine Networks World Conference. The folks at Terrapinn provided some excellent content to this issue, and we expect their event to be another excellent opportunity to learn, as well as see industry friends.

Welcome To Syeda Humera

Welcome to our Summer Intern, Syeda Humera, a graduate of my alma mater, Central Michigan University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Science and a master’s degree in computer science. She has practical experience as a Software Developer at ALM

Software Solutions, India, where she honed her skills in MLflow, JavaScript, GCP, Docker, DevOps, and more. Her expertise includes Data Visualization, Scikit-Learn, Databases, Ansible, Data Analytics, AI, and Programming. Having completed her master’s degree, Humera is now poised to apply her comprehensive skills and knowledge in the field of computer science. Like me, she is a Chippewa, and maroon and gold through and through –Fire Up Chips!

Welcome Also To Bill Spilman

Welcome also to our new Advertising Sales Representative, Bill Spilman, who is our primary liaison for all advertising across our diverse range of print and digital publications. With over 35 years of professional experience in the industry, he brings significant expertise to SubTel Forum. Bill is based in Oneida, Illinois, USA.

Ask The Expert Button

In our last issue we added the “Ask the Expert” button to a number of department articles and are a little overwhelmed with the interest and response – Thanks –and please keep asking…

Do you have further questions on this topic?

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Thank You

Thanks for their support to this issue’s advertisers: Submarine Networks World, Fígoli Consulting, Southern Cross, and WFN Strategies. Thanks also to the many authors who continue to make our issues interesting and so far reaching. Of course, our ever popular and newly refashioned “where in the world are all those pesky cableships” is included as well.

Lastly, we hope that SubTel Forum continues to be your premier destination for news and analysis related to the submarine cable industry.

Good reading – Slava Ukraini STF

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