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It was 0.003 seconds. No one was supposed to notice. But Judith did.

Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1971. Judith Novak is a Bell Laboratories engineer working on the handoff protocols that will form the basis of cellular telephone networks - the most significant telecommunications infrastructure project of the century. In the routing architecture for step six of the handoff protocol, she finds an anomaly: a 0.003-second delay that appears in the specification but is unaccounted for in any technica...