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, Youre in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.