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More books read in 2018, as recommended by Steve Alexander and Yves LeMaitre.
Steve Alexander, senior vice president and CTO, Ciena
I was standing in line at a Starbucks and was chatting with another person who asked what all these engineers were doing talking about networks of submarines. In fact, it was a nearby conference on submarine cables. The person said: “I thought that’s what satellites were for”.
I wanted to find a book I could point people to who think that satellites carry most of the international traffic when, in fact, it is the fibre-optic submarine cables that carry the vast majority of the world’s communications. I came up with The Undersea Network by Nicole Starosielski.
Our industry does such a good job at this that most people don’t even know such networks exist. It is like air; it is there and it works.
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