Chapter 347, key patents held in the early years
Everything is natural.
The research and development of adsl technology is not very difficult, at least for Alice. In fact, she had not graduated from San Anto Elementary School, and Cisco was established for a short time, and she took advantage of the trend of routers to invent this technology. It was just that in a short period of time, there was no need to put it on the stage.
After all, it is hard not to remind her of the word "broadband access" when developing a router. The term "broadband access" is familiar to all Chinese people. If you make a phone call, there will be an errand worker who brings contracts and routers to apply for installation, which is a real part of daily life.
This technology is complex and complicated. For those who started research from scratch, namely Bell Labs in history, it does take a lot of time and energy to explore experiments step by step. But it is also simple. When Alice is not stingy with using concept power to assist with hardware transformation, it is still easy to achieve the degree of "patent".
The full name of adsl is asymmetric digital user line, which belongs to the DSL family, namely digital user line. This is a technology developed by Bell Labs for video on demand business in 1989, which uses copper twisted pair cables to transmit high-speed data. Unfortunately, video on demand business failed to emerge at this time, so the dsl technology was temporarily discarded. On the contrary, when the Internet developed in the 1990s, it caused the cheap and low cost of copper twisted wires, and the adsl was re-started, making it easy to achieve high-speed network of ordinary users.
This technology itself is not difficult, because its basic principle is really just to divide three channels for twisted pair cables. As long as someone is interested in finding the right goal and developing it, it takes a few months to get a year to register a patent. Unfortunately, since Alice targeted this concept as early as 1984, there is no relationship between Bell Labs.
Technology research and development is not difficult, and what really takes time is the process of operators completing the relevant infrastructure and ultimately realizing broadband access to households.
For a long time, from the perspective of communication users, the entire process has been connected to the community and even the municipal exchange bureau through the ordinary twisted copper wire user line, and enter the public exchange communication network until the other party's telephone is connected, so as to realize the call between the two telephone users.
This is the frequency band provided by broadband for traditional analog telephones, with a frequency ranging from 300 to 3400hz. This is actually a very low-speed level. It is not difficult to understand the hardware standards of Lenovo's world's first telephone. Therefore, in order to better adapt to modern needs, operators provide users with modems to increase the speed, so that data signals with speeds up to 33kn/s to 56kb/s can be realized with data communication with the other party through the analog voice band.
In other words, before the adsl technology arrived, the data transmission speed of Internet users was limited to this. This way of surfing the Internet that occupied telephone lines could still adapt to demand in the early years, but with the continuous popularization of this low-level technology, the demand for higher-end technologies naturally increased.
The transmission rate of copper stranded wire can be very high, but the switches in the communication network have limitations. It only has one frequency band for telephone communication, so when the user's Internet data comes, it can only treat it as telephone communication data. Therefore, since the copper stranded wire itself does not restrict data transmission, as long as it can avoid narrowband switches, users can transmit Internet data to the communication network at high speed, which is also the core purpose of the dsl series technology.
Well, actually, when I learned about the whole cause and effect, Alice also knew that this was Cisco's problem. Whether it was Cisco or any company that made switches, it would be good if everyone could develop and sell switches and sell them for money. It was specially designed to improve the public's network speed to make the products distinguish digital information? Why are you so idle?
Therefore, this project must be solved by network suppliers.
"This is a very large business, but there is no doubt that it will effectively promote the development of a whole society. In this regard, Cisco can provide relevant technical support, such as the authorization of DSL-related technologies, and the authorization of interface patents in infrastructure network transformation... Yes, Mr. Locke, this technology, as I explained to you, is a matter of technical content that is not too profound, but is very difficult to popularize, so it is even necessary for us to set a standard for this, what do you think?"
The meeting was still going on, and Alice, who was ready for it, had also distributed the materials related to DSL technology. At this time, all the shareholders in the audience had finished reading, while the representative Cero Patton Locke fell into deep thought.
"This is indeed a blueprint with outstanding prospects." After a moment of silence, he sighed and said, "But please let me discuss it carefully with the members of the board of directors. Miss Wang and His Royal Highness, it is getting late now. How about we go to the restaurant downstairs for lunch first?"
It was indeed late, and the reading of adls, sdsl and even hdsl data under the DSL technology took up a lot of time for this session. Alice was of course happy and patted her belly and said, "That's really great. Mr. Locke, I've heard that the British Telecom cafeteria has hired several skilled French chefs. I want to treat myself well."
Then, everyone walked out of the conference room with laughter and laughter. As soon as they reached the floor hall, Prince Charles seemed to be pacing casually, but just rightly stood with Patton Locke.
"Oh, Your Highness the Crown Prince..."
"The American At&T company, even Bell Atlantic, has a lot of pressure on us," he said calmly: "If you don't choose to cooperate with her, then this girl will definitely choose our competitors. Mr. Locke, when new industries are booming, it is crucial that who is the number one. I believe you will understand this principle better than me."
“That’s nature, that’s nature.”
Patton Locke and the Crown Prince slowly followed behind the team. The technical department director Chad had already savvyly wrapped up Alice. When the two of them discussed technical details at the elevator door, they were talking in a low voice behind the brigade.
"But His Royal Highness, if this plan is really to be implemented, it is one aspect to transform the existing network lines. We must still buy a huge order from Cisco. Since this technology was proposed by Ms. Wang, her main products will definitely play a key role in this process, so the cost needs to be calculated from two aspects."
There was no time to say more, because the elevator had already opened, Crown Prince Charles laughed loudly and said, "Come on, come on, let's go and taste a wonderful French delicacy together, Alice, don't snatch my portion!"
"So in setting the standard for network cable interface...Oh OK, Your Highness, I will definitely grab every bit of lobster on your plate!"
With a friendly pat on the shoulder of technical director Chad, Alice was the first to walk into the elevator.
The executive restaurant is located in a remote corner of the canteen. The decoration here is quite exquisite, and there is also a whole glass window that allows people to see the bustling street scene of London. As for lunch itself, of course, it is not just for the sake of eating, waiting for the dishes to come up. Some people need to ask Alice a series of questions.
Of course, it will not be the case in this cooperation for the time being. It was mentioned only when the meeting was held in the afternoon.
"Is the rumors true?" asked Jessica, a redhead of CFO, one of BT's executive shareholders, curiously: "The Times financial edition reported that tesco's market value was trapped with a value of 1.4 billion pounds, and the biggest deal was you made?"
"Ah, tesco, yes, Jessica." Alice smiled calmly: "The net profit of 34 million pounds, thanks to the roller coaster it had been a few days ago, I didn't expect to make so much money."
Crown Prince Charles, who was listening, sucked his eyes.
Jessica undoubtedly raised a topic of striking interest. Seeing Alice answering with ease, another executive continued to ask: "How did you think it would have a roller coaster? God bless me, I happened to be in the space-time position when it fell sharply, and I lost a lot now."
"Tesco...it's the largest supermarket chain in the UK."
Alice looked at the first dish and said, "As of now, there are hundreds of branches in the UK alone? Most of them are concentrated in London. Everyone, London is a financial city, so you think, when this stock market crash makes so many people short of money, who else will hang out in the supermarket?"
“Yes, so…”
"So it will plummet immediately, but it will rise immediately."
Alice smiled and looked at the second dish on the serving: "Because the things bought in the supermarket are all daily necessities, and even fresh food. When people are short of money, they will indeed subconsciously think of going to the supermarket less, but what will be affected is just luxury goods and consumables. Going to the supermarket less... After all, aren't you going to go there too?"
Seeing that everyone in the audience was savoring her words, Alice smiled slowly again and picked up the wine glass.
Normally, after all, for these people who watch financial channels every day, their recent multi-party arbitrage in the global stock market must have attracted countless people's jealousy. So when she shares her investment philosophy, even though these adults are at least twice as old as her, they still have to listen obediently.
Chapter completed!