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In the fifth edition of SubTel Forum's Annual Industry Report, the format has been updated to include more. We've attempted to make a more encompassing view of the submarine fiber industry available to you, our readers. For the first time, we have produced this report entirely in house with the assistance of STF Analytics, our recently spun out research and data analysis arm. Within this issue, you will find the analysis of data collected by the diligent analysts of SubTel Forum and STF Analytics, whose focus now includes system capacity analysis, as well as the actual productivity and outlook of current and planned systems and the companies that service them. In this report, we have identified $5 billion in new projects that are being actively pursued by their developers. Of those, $2 billion worth are executed contract-in-force, and $1.5 billion of those new, contract-in-force systems are slated for 2017 alone.