21923 - SCTE Broadband Aug2023 COMPLETE v1 (1)

38 Vol. 45 No. 3 - September 2023 Issue from the industry The history of fibre optic technology is not that substantial, but I see this museum having two parts; one is a fixed museum, which will still be in Bucharest, and the other one will be a portable, touring exhibition, which will circulate around the best technical museums in Europe. I would like this to be a museum of the future. It is not only of the past, of the history of the last 50 years. Who will be working with you on this? CB: I’d like to have a board of directors, made up of advisors from other science and technology museums such as the PK Porthcurno Museum of Global Communications in the UK, or the Science Museum in Valencia. Ideally the board would have meetings every quarter and create a future strategy and a series of actions proposals. So far I’ve visited eight museums in the last year as part of my research. It’s ongoing. How did you get started? You seem to have your fingers in lots of pies. CB: My first job after I finishing university was working in a company whose CEO went to the US for fibre optic training, and he gave me a book when he returned. Look, this book called “Fiber Optic” is in English, he told me. Your first job is to translate it into Romanian. It was a good experience to get the basics on fibre optics, and to find the right words in Romanian. It was a very technical piece of work. I moved to Siemens in Bucharest from ‘95-98, then I was at Siemens in Nigeria from 99-01. I then worked as a fibre optic engineer and Infrastructure Manager for RCS&RDS, a Romanian telecoms operator. I spent some time at Netcity and then I set up my consultancy, and I started fibre training as a business, but found at that