The Goddess Shines on America

When the new day just started, 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 excuse for laziness. .

"Jeff Bezos!"

Just as Bezos sitting in the corner had just filled his coffee to offset the distress of staying up until two in the morning last night, Leonardo Posac, the Minister of Technology and one of the company’s shareholders, suddenly shouted: Mill Clayton, Joseph Omar, Jack Edson! Mafiel Sauron!"

A personal name resounded in the spacious office. As the headquarters of Cisco, which is dominated by computer engineers, the technical department naturally occupies an entire floor. When the minister in power holds a loudspeaker and reads a personal name, most of the employees immediately stop their work and want to understand what happened. what.

"The person whose name I have pronounced above, immediately gather in meeting room A-2!"

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

"Hey, Jeff, you might be lucky again."

At the same time, Milland said enviously: "The last time you were recruited into the firewall research and development team, it was this kind of opening. When will you be free, hurry up and buy us a drink?"

There were more than one or two employees sitting near Bezos. Ed, who was typing on the code, smiled and said, "Yes, yeah, these projects can bring us a good bonus. Jeff, If you don’t make time, you invite us to go to Las Vegas for a lap!"

"Oh, that's great."

Bezos shook his head proudly, and when the other colleagues called in to the meeting room, he quickly adjusted his tie: "You know I'm a big fat sheep!"

Throwing off these words, and amidst the roar of laughter, he trot all the way to the A-2 conference room.

In the meeting room at midday, thirty-six people gathered together and sat around a wide table. When entering the door, everyone was reminded to pick up a piece of information by themselves. When everyone walked into the house, Bossak 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 documents were basically browsed synchronously. When there were only four or five people with slower reading speeds, and there seemed to be three or two pages left, Bosak pinched his watch and finally spoke.

"I have basically seen what I should see. This is what the big boss faxed to me last night. I believe you all have some ideas."

He said: "To be honest, I don't know when Alice obtained such a patent. When our big boss recruited Sandy and me, he just pulled us closer to her bedroom and placed the finished product. Show it to us. So, it’s no surprise to say when she suddenly made such a technology and then went straight to apply for a patent."

The employees present all laughed softly. At this moment, everyone understands why they are called. It has only been three years since Cisco was founded. In addition to its first flagship product, routers, it has also launched two independent products, switches and firewalls. Which of the beginnings of these two tasks was not the same as it is now?

The boss directly assigned the task, and then provided a lot of data for the R&D team in advance, even directly as a semi-finished product. What Bossack needs to do is to quickly set up the follow-up R&D team. However, Bezos looked around. Few of this group of colleagues participated in the last two projects, because most of them are now busy with the cooperation with Lucent Technologies. Instead, two-thirds of this group are Is a newcomer.

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

Bossack continued: "The basic difficulty of DLS series technology is not high. 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 a telecommunications supplier in the United Kingdom. Business cooperation, because we can’t replace all the copper twisted pairs in the world!"

There was another laughter. An older employee, Bob raised his hand and said: "But Leon, if we really want to implement this technology, we need to launch a brand-new modem. Do we have to produce this product ourselves? ?"

Bossack replied: "Not for the time being. According to Alice, she wants to directly establish industry standards based on British Telecom's mature market and industry position. In other words, we don’t need to produce modems, we just need to use Patented technology can set industry standards for them. The DLS series technology can greatly increase the bandwidth of ordinary users. This is completely in line with the current development trend, and no one will object."

In this way, Alice's plan is clearly laid out in front of the employees. Instead of actively producing a specific product, and then grabbing the market bit by bit, but relying on the patented technology in hand, following the trend of the global computer network development, the patent in hand becomes the new industry standard, and then sitting Collect massive amounts of royalties. This is a big deal that is more convenient than anything else, and the potential value is far greater than the sale of tens of thousands of modems!

"So..." At this point, Posak 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 get those guys out. Get moving!"

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

The young man got up enthusiastically, and he was about to run to an unknown position. The result was good. Bossac had to call him back again: "Blake, just say that the news will be released tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. No, the day after tomorrow. Then don’t forget to contact the logistics department. We have to entertain the group of reporters. We just need to have a buffet as usual."

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

The young man is so excited, after all, he is a fresh graduate who just joined the company half a month ago. The company’s major shareholder and the leader of the company’s core department’s technology department spoke in person and told him to prepare for the press conference. This is a great honour.

After the matter was over, Posak returned to the conference room and beckoned everyone to sit down with him: "Then, let's analyze the tasks ahead."

He tremblingly said: "The DSL series is divided into ADSL, RADSL, HDSL and VDSL. The whole series can be referred to as xDSL. Note that when writing reports in the future, this'x' should be lowercase. Cough, according to The big boss explained that this x represents different types of digital subscriber line technologies. The differences between various digital subscriber line technologies are mainly manifested in the signal transmission rate and distance, as well as the difference between symmetric and asymmetric."

Of course, the people on the scene couldn't fully understand the huge pile of information, and the leaders who needed to be leaders had to grind their guns in the battle last night. Bezos sat on the side, and he could clearly see that Bosak's dark circles had deepened. The hard work of leading a high-income person was also extraordinary.

"I will talk about ADSL first, because it will be the largest market share. ADLS, a typical asymmetric DLS, can provide up to 8Mbps high-speed downlink rate and 1Mbps uplink rate on the existing telephone twisted pair cable. The transmission distance can reach three to five kilometers. It can make full use of the existing PSTN telephone network, and only need to install new modems at both ends of the line to provide users with high-speed broadband services without rewiring, so it can greatly reduce Service cost."

Everyone nodded silently in agreement. In the promotion of new technologies and products, cost has always been the most important obstacle. In other words, any approach that can reduce costs will enable this technology or product to gain more markets faster. The success of routers is typical, so letting them understand this ADSL technology by analogy is naturally familiar.

"As for HDSL, that is, high bit rate DSL, 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 N×64kbps, and up to E1 rate...Uh, Okay, don't laugh, don't laugh, theoretical data..."

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

"RADSL is the abbreviation of rate-adaptive DSL~www.readwn.com~ Allows service DSL providers to adjust the connection bandwidth according to the actual bandwidth requirements, and better overcomes the transmission distance and transmission quality limitations. The main feature is that it can use a Realize data transmission on twisted-pair cable, which can support synchronous and asynchronous transmission, and has rate adaptive performance. The downstream transmission rate of RADSL is between 640kbps and 12Mbps, and the upstream transmission rate is between 128kbps and 1Mbps, and it 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, with a maximum transmission rate of 58Mbps. When the user loop length is less than 5000 feet, it can provide 13Mbps or Higher access rate. From a technical point of view, VDSL can actually be regarded as the next-generation technology of ADSL, and its average transmission rate can be 5 to 10 times higher than that of ADSL."

"So it is obvious that the most important target we need to focus on is ADSL. There is no need for users to change the telephone line. By replacing the modem and the network cable interface as the main means, a wider network can be entered into thousands of households. The benefits that patents can bring to Cisco are far more than any other one hundred times!"

"Well, everyone, let me stop here. You don't need to rush back to work. Now I will read through the information at hand before talking!" (To be continued.)