When the new day just opened, Cisco's offices immediately fell into a busy state. The winter in San Jose is much warmer than the place where the boss is staying, so programmers who are accustomed to working overtime have no excuses of being lazy.

"Jeff Bezos!"

Just as Bezos, who was sitting in the corner, had just filled up coffee to offset the sleepiness of staying up to two in the morning last night, the technical minister and one of the company's shareholders, Leonardo Posack, suddenly shouted: "Emir Clayton, Joseph Omar, Jack Ederson! Marfield Soren!"

A personal name resounds in a wide office. As Cisco, the headquarters of most computer engineers, the technical department naturally occupies a whole floor. When the powerful minister chants a personal name with a loudspeaker, most of the employees immediately stop working and figure out what is going on.

"The person I have pronounced the name above will immediately go to the A-2 conference room to gather!"

There were thirty-five people in total, Bezos recited silently and quickly drank the whole cup of coffee in one sip.

"Hey, Jeff, you're probably lucky again."

While around him, Mirlan said enviously: "The last time you were recruited into the firewall R&D team, this was the opening. When will you have time? Hurry up and invite us to have a drink?"

There were more than one or two employees sitting near Bezos. Ed, who was typing the code, smiled and said, "Yes, these projects can bring us a good bonus. Jeff, why don't you take some time and ask us to go to Las Vegas for a walk!"

"Oh, that's really great."

Bezos shook his head proudly, and quickly tidied up his tie when other colleagues called each other to gather in the conference room: "You know I'm a big fat sheep!"

He threw this sentence off, and then amidst the burst of laughter, he trotted all the way to the A-2 conference room.

In the meeting room at noon, thirty-six people gathered together and sat around a table of Kuanda. When entering the door, each person was reminded to pick up a piece of information by himself. When everyone walked into the house, Posack, who was sitting in the first chair, had only one sentence - read the information.

So for at least ten minutes, the whole room was silent.

After that, all the information was basically browsed simultaneously. When there were only four or five people with slow reading speed, and there seemed to be three or two pages left, Posack pinched his watch and finally spoke.

"I have basically seen everything I should see. This is what the boss faxed me last night. I believe everyone has some ideas."

He said, "To be honest, I don't know when Alice got such a patent. When our boss recruited Sandy and me, he directly pulled us closer to her bedroom and showed us the finished product. So, it's not surprising that she suddenly made such a technology and then went straight to apply for a patent."

The employees here all chuckled. At this moment, everyone understood why they called each other. Cisco has only been established for three years. In addition to its first major product router, it has launched two separate products, switches and firewalls. When did the beginning of these two tasks be the same as it is now?

The boss directly assigned the task, and then provided a lot of data to the R&D team in advance, even directly as a semi-finished product. What Posack needs to do is to quickly form the subsequent R&D team. However, Bezos looked around, but few of the colleagues from this group participated in the two projects, because most of them are busy with the cooperation with Lucent Technology, and replaced them. Two-thirds of this group are newcomers.

"Oh, but I think everyone can see it."

Posack continued: "The basic foundation of the DLS series technology is not very difficult. More work is to establish standards for the entire industry, such as the unified replacement of network cable plugs. So this is why, this project is to cooperate with a British telecommunications supplier, because we cannot replace all copper twisted pair wires in the world!"

Another laughter, a senior employee, Bob raised his hand and said, "But Leon, if he really wants to implement this technology, he needs to launch a brand new modem. Do we also need to produce this product on our own?"

Posack replied: "Not for the time being. According to Alice, she wants to directly establish industry standards through the mature market and industry status of the British Telecom company. That is to say, we don't need to produce modems, we just need to set industry standards for them with patented technology. The dls series technology can greatly increase the bandwidth of ordinary users, which is completely something that conforms to the current development trend and no one will object."

In this way, Alice's plan is clearly placed in front of the employees. It is not that she actively produces a specific product and then seizes the market bit by bit, but that she has the patent technology in hand to adapt to the great development of global computer networks, and that the patents she has started by herself become a new industry standard, and then she collects a huge amount of patent usage fees. This is a big deal that is more convenient than anything else, and the potential value is far greater than selling tens of thousands of modems!

"So..." Speaking of this, Posack opened the door of the conference room and shouted to the outside: "Blake! Find someone to contact the major media. We will hold a press conference in a while to make those guys move!"

"Okay, Mr. Posack, I'll do it right away!"

The young man stood up with enthusiasm, and then he was going to run to an unknown location. The result was good. Posack had to call him back: "Blake, just say that the news will be released at 11:00 tomorrow morning. No, the day after tomorrow, and don't forget to contact the logistics department. We also need to entertain those reporters, just hold a buffet as usual."

"Okay, Mr. Posack, I'll do it right away!"

The young man was so excited. After all, he was a fresh graduate who just joined the company half a month ago. The company's major shareholder and the leader of the technical department of the company's core department spoke up and told him to prepare for the press conference. This was a great honor.

After this matter was over, Posack returned to the conference room and waved to everyone to sit with him: "So, let's analyze the tasks in the future."

He shook the information and said: "The dsl series is divided into several major categories: adsl, radsl, hdsl and vdsl. The entire series can be referred to as xdsl. Note that when writing reports in the future, this 'x' will be lowercase. Ahem, according to the explanation of the boss, this x represents different types of digital user line technology. The differences between various digital user line technology are mainly reflected in the signal transmission rate and distance, as well as the difference between symmetry and asymmetry."

Of course, everyone at the scene could not fully understand it in an instant. The leader still needed to sharpen his gun last night. Bezos sat aside and could clearly see Posack's dark circles deepened a little further. The hard work of leading high-income people is also unusual.

"I'll talk about adsl first, because it will be the largest market share. adsls are typical asymmetric dls that can provide high-speed downlink rates up to 8mbps and uplink rates of 1mbps on existing telephone twisted pairs, with an effective transmission distance of up to three to five kilometers. It can make full use of the existing pstn telephone network, and only by installing new modems at both ends of the line can provide users with high-speed broadband services without re-wiring, so it can greatly reduce service costs."

Everyone nodded silently to agree. Cost has always been the most important hindrance factor in the promotion of new technologies and products. In other words, any way to reduce costs will make this technology or product gain more market faster. The success of routers is typical, so it is naturally easy to understand the adsl technology through analogies.

"As for HDSL, that is, DSL with high bit rate, according to the explanation of the big boss, this technology is characterized by using two pairs of twisted pairs to realize data transmission, supporting various rates of nx64kbps, up to e1 rate... Well, okay, don't laugh, don't laugh, do theoretical data..."

Undoubtedly, this is a technology that only high-end institutions need. Although the unit price of the product will definitely give merchants huge profit margins, the overall market size will limit its profits.

"Radsl is the abbreviation of rate adaptive dsl, allowing service dsl suppliers to adjust the connection bandwidth according to actual bandwidth requirements, and better overcome the limitations of transmission distance and transmission quality. The main feature is that data transmission can be achieved using a pair of twisted pair wires, which can support synchronous and asynchronous transmission, and has rate adaptive performance. The downlink transmission rate of radsl is between 640kbps and 12mbps, and the uplink transmission rate is between 128kbps and 1mbps, and can support simultaneous data and voice transmission."

"VDSL is a theoretical ultra-high-speed DSL. It can achieve extremely high data transmission rates over relatively short distances and achieve a transmission rate of up to 58mbps. When the user loop length is less than 5,000 feet, it can provide an access rate of 13mbps or higher. From a technical perspective, VDSL can actually be regarded as the next generation of adsl technology, with an average transmission rate of 5 to 10 times higher than adsl."

"So it's obvious that the goal we need to focus on is adsl. Without letting users change their phone lines, changing modem and network cable interfaces as the main means, a wider network can be allowed to enter thousands of households. The benefits this patent can bring to Cisco are far more abundant than any other one!"

"Okay, everyone, I'll say this first. You don't have to rush back to work. Now let's read the information here thoroughly!"
Chapter completed!