OSA Update
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Honors for Strickland and Marcos / First Subsea-optical-fiber School / Congressional Fellows / OSAF hosts Innovation School / OSA Fellow Stories / Reviewer Portal Launched / Fourth Edition of ISLIST / Thank You, Editors and Volunteers
[Image: German Lepekhin]
Data traffic via the subsea optical-fiber cable network is expected to double in the next three years. Attracting talent to design, engineer and maintain the system is an industry challenge. To help address this issue, the OSA Foundation (OSAF), in partnership with Google, held its inaugural Subsea Optical Fiber Communications International School in Joensuu, Finland, 4–10 August. Attendees from 31 countries learned about submarine-system design, submarine powering, cable technology and career pathing. Companies such as NEC Corp., Facebook, Google, Nokia, OFS, Orange, SubCom and others were on hand to network and recruit. Read more at SubseaOFC.com.
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