Chapter 72 Network Lab
When he came out of Zhou Shuo's office, Wu Hao felt very excited. He seemed to see a golden road that was rapidly rising in front of him. He really didn't expect that it would have been an ordinary investigation that would inadvertently dig out a gold mine!
No, where is the output value of a gold mine higher than that of a software park? It does not dig gold, but US dollars! If the software park plan can be implemented in the end, he would not dare to imagine how much political capital he would get.
Not to mention that Wu Hao ran back to the imperial capital without stopping, Zhou Shuo also seized the time to start guiding the development of network communication software.
Netscape 1.0 browser was released in December 1994, and Netscape has laid the last cornerstone of its $7 billion market value. Before they self-inflated and ready to develop the operating system to touch Microsoft's butt, "Six-Ear IM" must achieve enough results that Microsoft faces.
The twelve top 64 software rooms researchers, current employees of Liuer Software Company and their manager Shao Shiming are working almost day and night.
In the computer room expanded by Yiqi High-tech, they put two or three chairs together and fell asleep when they were sleepy. When they were hungry, they soaked a bag of instant noodles and ate with relish. This instant noodles from 1994 was a good thing, and the yellow bag of Sanxian Yi noodles will never be eaten.
When Zhou Shuo comes to the computer room, he will be surrounded by these people immediately. You will throw you one question and one question at a time. He can't get out of the computer room for an hour or two. Although Zhou Shuo no longer needs to program it himself, he still wrote the development documents, the architecture is designed by him, and the basic algorithms and principles of the software are derived from his communication modules. A few words can often make researchers think for a long time.
Of course, he can't explain the specific content of the work in detail. After all, IM software is not his research direction, and it is enough to give some advice on the general direction. He just cheers everyone up and encourages them, and promises things like completion bonus, housing reward or catering conditions.
Finally, people in this era have been used to hard life since childhood. For them, compared with their former colleagues who are waiting for work, what else is happier than having a job?
However, the development of Liuer IM is mainly Shao Shiming, and Zhou Shuo only goes there once or twice occasionally. However, he must take the lead in the research of cable modems.
Compared with the six-ear IM, he has higher expectations for the cable modem.
Huaxing Group, where Zhou Shuo worked in his previous life, is the main competitor of Cisco, the United States. His main research direction is also focused on digital data communication. However, it is not that easy to enter the US market. Cisco has developed almost with the birth of the Internet, especially in the United States, which is very powerful.
If you want to pull teeth in their household registration, you must not force the enemy. Using force to fight will become Zhou Shuo's best choice.
The object of this leverage is the American media group. The trend of telephone, cable TV, the Internet, and the integration of three networks is obvious. The strong rise of the Internet has a huge impact on traditional cable TV network operators. He believes that if these media giants are given a choice in advance, they will definitely choose to use the TV network to integrate the three networks instead of being integrated by the Internet.
Cable modems are not only such a generous gift to media giants, but also a short sword that penetrates from behind to Cisco!
In the era when the telephone network was generally only 56Kbps, a tiger with a minimum speed of 2Mbps suddenly appeared. Zhou Shuo really wanted to see what many network equipment manufacturers would look like at that time.
"From today, Principal Zhou will be responsible for the overall work of our network laboratory." Huang Shi said loudly standing on the stage.
As Huangshi finished speaking, hundreds of researchers whispered to each other. The Network Laboratory is the largest laboratory in the 64 schools. It not only studies digital network technology, but also optoelectronics and wireless network technology.
"Comrades, please be quiet. If you have any topics to be disbanded later, then discuss them. This development work has been approved by the superior department. Everyone should be united and carry forward the development of one without fear of hardship and two without fear of…"
Seeing that the voices of the following were getting louder and louder, Zhou Shuo saw that Huang Shi seemed to be unable to control himself, he quickly grabbed the microphone and said, "Hello everyone, I am Zhou Shuo, and I will be responsible for the work of the network laboratory from today. First of all, I announced that the salary of all network laboratory researchers will increase by an additional 30%!"
After he said that, the lower part suddenly became quiet. Zhou Shuo laughed at himself. Now that we are poor, only money is left. If anyone is dissatisfied, he will directly pay the money and make sure that it will be unfavorable.
"I will be mainly responsible for the research work in the laboratory, and all daily affairs will be the same. Please rest assured."
Only then did someone remember that the person standing on the stage was not just the principal of a vocational high school. Zhou Shuo's ability to make money in the Sixty-four Institute is simply a mythical existence. The dozens of people in the software room can create 400,000 and 500,000 US dollars a month! The output value of one month is enough for the operating expenses of the Sixty-four Institute to maintain a year of operation.
What is the need for a leader who only benefits but does not harm everyone? Besides, he cannot stay in the online laboratory all the time, and the commission relationship will naturally be terminated after the project is successful.
Thinking of this, anyone gave up the idea of fighting for power and profit.
"This is Fu Xiaochen, the director of the Internet Laboratory, this is Li Chi, the deputy director, and this is Zhao Ruilao, the head of the optoelectronics project..." Huang Shi introduced Zhou Shuo to Zhou Shuo one by one, and Zhou Shuo followed him and shook hands with them one by one.
After walking around, Zhou Shuo couldn't help but sigh at the huge size of the Internet laboratory. There were more than a dozen brains in his mind. He couldn't even remember the names of them. He could only barely remember a few people in charge of projects related to cable modem technology.
After the welcoming ceremony, Huangshi left on his own. Zhou Shuo and his group walked into the Internet Laboratory building in a mighty manner.
Let everyone return to their posts, Zhou Shuo said to Fu Xiaochen: "Director Fu, can you introduce me to the current research on digital communications in our 64 institutes?"
"Yes." Fu Xiaochen seemed to feel a little taciturn, nodded and walked forward.
Zhou Shuo hurriedly followed him and finally chased him. But he saw him turn around and entered a laboratory.
"This is the laboratory of the communication engineering project team. We are conducting experiments on analog modulation systems. We mainly track foreign technologies and have achieved a modem with a transmission speed of 14.4Kbps." Speaking of this, Fu Xiaochen pointed to a machine with a little proud pride and said: "This is because we used echo cancellation technology to solve the problem of echoing the signal native machine."
"Oh, you can already implement the algorithm of echo cancellation?" Zhou Shuo was really curious. Echo cancellation technology is a roadblock in the development of narrowband modem. This technology can determine whether the received signal comes from the echo from the local unit or from other modems during high-speed transmission, which can eliminate the signal echo problem that is easy to cause while increasing the network speed.
Before the invention of this technology, it took the Americans 14 years to increase the transmission speed of Modem from the original 14.4Kpbs to 28.9Kbps. After the invention of this technology, the speed increased to 56Kbps in just two years.
Fu Xiaochen smiled awkwardly and said, "It was Yu Qiong from the software room that realized it."
Zhou Shuo smiled slightly and didn't say much. But he felt a little regretful about putting Yu Qiong in the United States. If he had known that she had such good skills, he should have kept her in the laboratory.
Zhou Shuo walked around the laboratory and frowned and said, "If you want to develop cable modem technology, it seems that there is no digital storage oscilloscope in the laboratory?"
Fu Xiaochen hesitated and said, "You can use an ordinary analog oscilloscope instead. Just do it a few more times."
Zhou Shuo shook his head and said, "This won't work, it will affect the development progress!"
"Where-" Fu Xiaochen said in embarrassment: "Let's ask comrades to work more, but Principal Zhou can't save overtime."
Zhou Shuo sighed: "It is definitely necessary to work overtime, but the equipment cannot be saved. We are very short of time. My plan is to take out the test model within three months and start production within half a year. Director Fu makes a list of equipment for me, don't save me money, just go buy it immediately!"
Fu Xiaochen then really realized Zhou Shuo's nature as a big dog, and said with a smile: "Then you have to add a high-frequency signal generator, spectrum analyzer, function signal generator, and some equipment laboratories have been used for more than ten years. Can you change it?"
"Switch!" Zhou Shuo waved his hand and said, "It's better for machines to wait for people, so we should not delay the development progress because of the equipment!"
Returning to the First Vocational High School from the Sixty-fourth Institute, Zhou Shuo called Liu Guifang over.
"Hey? Sister Liu, what did you find the money?" Zhou Shuo couldn't help asking when he saw Liu Guifang with a spring breeze on his face.
"Haha, today, I'm happier than picking up money!" Liu Guifang sat at Zhou Shuo's desk, the gossip fire burning, and said mysteriously: "Principal, guess what I saw?"
Zhou Shuo smiled helplessly and said, "How can I guess this? I'm not a fortune teller."
Liu Guifang said relentlessly: "I'm going to the Education Bureau to receive the final unified examination paper today. Can you guess?"
"Hmm?" Zhou Shuo vaguely guessed a possibility and asked, "Is anyone unlucky?"
"Ha!" Liu Guifang clapped her hands and laughed: "Who else can it be? Director Wang and Section Chief Li are the brothers in distress."
"Haha." Zhou Shuo shook his head silently. He had a premonition when he watched their performance that day, but he didn't expect it to be so soon.
"It's so satisfying. These two people misappropriated the public funds of the Education Bureau to trade stocks, but unexpectedly they lost money. The account check at the end of the year finally couldn't hide it. Today, they were taken away by the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection in front of all the employees of the Education Bureau..."
Chapter completed!