Welcome to Issue 125, our Regional Systems edition, featuring High-Capacity Cable Manufacturers!
July 19, 2022
If it’s July it must mean le Tour…
It’s been a little difficult in the office recently, balancing various meetings with a surprise break in the Peloton, a crash, or one of many point sprints. Jumping from the desk or conference table to view the television in the break room can be hazardous as well as a little disconcerting to others who find themselves mistakenly in the way.
By now, thankfully, most have figured out that if it’s July it means the Tour de France is on. Somewhere deep in my employment contract there must be words that say something like, “except for 3 weeks in July” or some such. Whether its age or position or just obstinance, I am only half engaged in the business at hand, as I have an ear on other important cycling matters from across the pond!
Especially now it is really important to have normality.
The world we knew has changed and is changing at breathtaking speeds. For good or worse? I’ll let the historians decide.
In my own case Peg and I are blowing the dust off our passports and returning to our village in County Hampshire’s New Forest next month. It is a great first step of many planned to re-engaging with our world and we could not be happier.
Online Map Overhaul
But in spite of my seasonal preoccupations, we have also been a little bit busy over the last few months. We decided to take a hard look at our online map and decided to accomplish a number of upgrades.
As such, our map zooms in farther to give you a better picture of where the landing is, and we track latitude/longitude as accurately as possible. Vessel data is updated every 6 hours and users can now filter to see specific vessel history over time. More system data is available in the system viewer and users can drag and select multiple systems on the map. We also added an ability to print or save a system(s) as pdf, as well as provided different options on ways to view the map, such as interactive 3D rendering, which we think provides an enhanced view of the world of cable. (https://subtelforum.com/submarine-cable-map/)
We are pretty pleased with the result, and look forward to hearing from you about what you think of it.
Thanks to Authors and Advertisers
Thank you especially to the excellent Authors who have contributed to this edition! Thanks also for their support to this issue’s advertisers. Of course, our ever popular “where in the world are all those pesky cableships” is included as well.
Thank you as always to our readers and supporters for honoring us with your interest.
In a world full of Putins, be a Zelenskyy. #Ukraine
Stay well,
Wayne Nielsen, Publisher