Chapter 2215 The Development of Network Laboratories (First Update)

In the previous life, the first large-scale portal website in the world was probably Yahoo.

But this company, founded in 1995, now has no trace.

In its previous life, Guge, the world's first standard search website, was founded in 1998. The two founders are still in middle school.

In this life, the search website Gu Ge was launched more than a year ago.

Compared with current network technology, Guge.com is not very widely used, but anyone who can use the Internet will basically use it.

Because Guge.com is so convenient and fast, basically the ancient information you want to find will definitely be found on it.

Even a lot of timely news can be found on it, but it is not as fast as the mobile phone network in the previous life.

After all, there's a lot involved here.

Various materials such as these, including encyclopedias, books, biographies, etc., were purchased by Guge.com from major copyright companies at a huge cost.

And those news, if they are reprinted, you will be charged according to the number of articles.

But Guge.com itself does not charge money, which means that as long as users can afford to access the Internet, they can enjoy this information for free.

Nowadays, many college students, when searching for information in the library, will choose to search in the computer room next to it.

As soon as you open the Guge.com web page and enter what you want to find, you will see many answers to choose from. This is most suitable for college students who are unwilling to use their brains.

For this reason, there are an average of two to three hundred computers on university campuses in the United States for students to use.

High schools were originally supposed to be connected to universities. When they saw that universities were promoting the use of computers and the Internet, many qualified high schools also started to learn.

This is one of the reasons why sales of Kirin computers have become increasingly popular over the past year or so.

But in fact, the biggest benefit is not the sales of computers, nor the large number of people using Guge.com, which drives traffic, but the development of this habit, which will affect students in the next few decades.

Some students may not go to college, but most of them will finish high school. As long as they are exposed to computers and the Internet in high school, after various problems are solved and the Internet and computers become popular, they will naturally Become a user and a fan.

Without their support, the development of the Internet and computers would not be possible.

Only with top-to-bottom support can this industry become more stable and develop better.

To put it bluntly, this is planting trees.

When the trees become shaded and cover the planet on a large scale, it will be the harvest season.

Of course, a very important point is that there must be better supporting facilities in order for the network and computer industry to develop faster.

The connection point between the network and the computer lies in the network transmission speed.

In the early days of computers, it took a long time to send a file and a minute to send a picture.

By the early 1990s, it took two to three minutes to open a web page, and even longer if it contained pictures.

That is to say, after the construction of the information highway in the United States began, Cisco came up with its own routing technology, and Nortel Networks developed the optical fiber network, the network speed continued to accelerate.

The whole process took almost 20 years to get on track.

This is also the case in China. Although we have not experienced the initial stage of the Internet, the beginning of the Internet around 1995 was only a transmission speed of a few K per second.

Around 2008, 10M broadband was very good.

People at that time could not have imagined that in just a decade or so, Internet speeds had developed by leaps and bounds, and 1000M home broadband could be achieved.

Coupled with the powerful chip processor, even if it is a mobile phone, it will not lag when playing large games.

A good Internet experience will bring a large number of users.

Including Taobao and Jingxi on the online shopping side, including Penguin on the online gaming side, these all rely on the online world to survive.

If the Internet speed and related supporting technologies do not meet expectations, no matter how much money and power they are given ten times more, they will not be able to achieve the scale they later achieved.

It's too early to tell.

But Yin Jun also knew that if he didn't work hard and master these world-leading network technologies, then future development would not be as he expected.

In its previous life, China relied on mobile network technology to achieve many overtakings in corners. For example, the most powerful network mobile payment is one of them.

Yin Jun wants to keep these things firmly in his own hands. There is absolutely no other way except spending a lot of money on research and development.

Today, Kirin Group has two related R&D laboratories, one is Kirin Network and the other is Kirin Laboratory, both of which are established in the United States.

Because only technology developed in the United States has better conditions for practical operation.

The more than 300 million developed and wealthy population in the United States is the best driving force to support the rapid commercialization of all new technologies.

First of all, Kirin Network is actually Cisco in the previous life.

It purchased the professional "multi-protocol router" technology of Stanford University professors Posak and his wife, as well as the switch technology developed based on this, as well as optical fiber transmission and network transmission technology.

Yin Jun chose John Chambers, who led Cisco to glory in his previous life, as president of Kirin Network. He invested more than 1 billion US dollars in R&D funds every year, allowing Kirin Network to gather the best experts to conduct technology research and development. .

Nowadays, the multi-protocol routers in major universities, that is, the equipment that combines all the computers used in the university to form a campus network, are all developed by Kirin Network.

Its equipment is stable, the internal transmission speed of the network is fast, there are few faults, and the price is not expensive. Therefore, after being recommended by Stanford University and Harvard University, first Ivy League schools used it, and then other universities also chose it. This is the best solution.

Including more than 80% of high schools in the United States today, they are negotiating one after another to use Kirin Network's multi-protocol routers.

Don't underestimate these businesses.

For Qilin Network, they are the basic points.

Every city will have high schools, and big cities will have universities. Once these points are dealt with, and they will be used as base points to expand comprehensively, a connected network will be formed.

This will greatly reduce the difficulty of connecting to the Internet across the United States.

In fact, to put it bluntly, all networks are composed of intra-network network groups.

It's just that the largest unit in the future is the individual user, and now the general unit is the school.

In the future, many cities will implement free network coverage throughout the city.

Doesn’t this kind of comprehensive coverage rely on these multi-protocol routers to connect signal towers?

Just relying on the technology of such a multi-protocol router, Kirin Network already earned US$180 million last year.

Although compared to Yin Jun's investment, this is only a drop in the bucket, but anyone with a discerning eye can see what will happen if this multi-protocol router is expanded to the whole country.

I even think more optimistically and expand directly to the world. That is really an irresistible force!

Merrill Lynch, a well-known company on Wall Street, valued Kirin Network at US$10 billion in May this year. In the high-tech industry, the premium capability is very outstanding.

At a time when Microsoft is now approaching a market value of 10 billion, Kirin Network's valuation has increased significantly. Even the very cautious Royal Bank of Scotland has given a valuation of 13 billion US dollars.

Yin Jun's other R&D institution, Kirin Labs, is actually no less powerful than Kirin Networks.

Kirin Network was expanded from the acquired Bell Labs.

Not only did it buy Bell Labs, it also actively absorbed many other scientific researchers from the Bell Group. For this, Yin Jun paid a very high price. The average annual salary of their R&D personnel is around US$150,000, which is similar to that of Qilin. The Internet is also ranked first in Silicon Valley, with Microsoft, Apple and Oracle all lagging behind.

Bell Labs has decades of long-term research on 3G technology, CDMA technology, optical fiber technology, and network technology.

Yin Jun only spent 330 million US dollars to buy it, which is really a huge profit.

This is also thanks to the US government. If they had not ordered the split of the American Telegraph and Telephone Company, Bell Labs would not have fallen into Yin Jun's hands.

Bell Labs has now been divided into two major divisions.

The first one is the 3G and CDMA technology department related to mobile phones. Although mobile phones cannot use the Internet now, this is also the future trend.

Yin Jun's confidence in the future use of network technology on mobile phones surprised and encouraged everyone in the department.

If the boss feels that what they have developed is useful and can become one of the important technologies in the future world, it is recognition of them and they will be more confident in their work.

Besides, the boss Yin Jun is the smartest person in the world and the genius with the most vision for the future. Since he said this, it must be true.

Imagining that the technology they are developing can change the world, these engineering men are simply working hard day and night.

The second department is about overall network technology.

It includes not only mobile phone networks, but also computer networks, various retail terminal networks, and smart home networks.

The core of these technologies is the transmission of optical fiber networks. In this aspect, Bell Labs and Kirin Networks have conducted research, but Bell Labs is more prominent.

For these two departments, Yin Jun’s annual investment is also 1 billion US dollars.

As a result, he built the best network-related laboratory in the world.

Making all the top talents want to work there or be invited by these two laboratories is an affirmation of their achievements and abilities!