Blooming America

The Internet is not only needed by Americans and Japanese, but also by Europeans.

While Catherine was in Japan, Ralph, President of American Telecom, was attending a conference in London, England, in Europe.

"The networks of all countries in the world can be regarded as a large local area network. The submarine and land optical cables connect them to form the Internet. The optical cable is the'central nerve' of the Inter. With the submarine optical cable, the nervous system of the entire world can be connected. Get up, this is very beneficial to the development of the world's integration..." Ralph is now persuading these stubborn and conservative Europeans to use his own products.

I have to say that Europeans are indeed a headache sometimes, but for the sake of business, Ralph has to personally go into battle to convince these Europeans. "Optical fiber is the'nervous system', and as the root server of the Internet, it is like the'brain' of Inter. We now have root servers in Europe and the United States, but such root servers are incomplete, whether in Europe or The root server in the United States is not a complete brain. Only by connecting the submarine optical cable can the whole world be completely connected."

"Um...but how much money will this cost? The Internet is good for us, but... I think you know that it brings us a lot of harm...Look at France, if there is no Internet behind Pushing bō to fuel the flames, how could something like that happen? We have not banned the use of the Internet now, and we are already under great pressure..."

What capitalists are best at is to speak the vernacular.

"Sir, I think your information may be out of date." Ralph had prepared for a long time. "A week ago, our American telecommunications company conducted a survey in the land of England and Wales, which agreed to connect to the Internet. More than 79% of the people who expressed their opposition clearly, only 8.5%."

The other side didn't seem to expect that Ralph had made such preparations.

They don't know. Even in history, Ralph has two brushes. In the face of this group of ossified Europeans, isn't it easy to catch him?

Old Europe is old, and it is now American.

"So... what is the cost of building submarine optical cables? Although optical cables are good for us, we cannot take too much risk in terms of cost."

"The total construction cost is about 200 million U.S. dollars, but we have already shared it with the Beida Company, so the European side only needs to pay 10,000 U.S. dollars. And I think everyone can still sit down and discuss together. Let’s talk about the construction of the Internet."

But the other side is still hesitating.

Ralph couldn't help feeling sorry for these dull guys.

Although Catherine has persuaded American companies, if it can pull in old Europe, the cost will be less.

For the old Europe, such a low cost has no effect on themselves, but these guys are simply stiff and stubborn!

If it is last year, they look down on the Internet, that is also reasonable. However, since the beginning of this year, the Internet has begun to develop rapidly, and the business opportunities within it have also begun to appear. At this time, if people say that they look down on the Internet again, it must be a brain problem.

"Submarine optical cable is one of the most important communication methods in the world in the future. Fang Zhouzhou Group has begun to manufacture the next generation of Internet-based telephone communication equipment. Using such telephone equipment, whether it is a long-distance call or a short-distance call, the cost can be reduced to the original level. One-third, or even one-tenth of the cost is possible." Since it is unreasonable, then use the most practical benefit to convince them.

If the history remains unchanged, in 1986, the American ATT company will lay the world's first commercial submarine optical cable between the Canary Islands of Spain and the neighboring island of Tenerife, with a total length of 120 kilometers.

Of course, the current submarine optical cable does not have the participation of AT&T in the future, but to speak of it, the current Catherine’s American Telecom Company is not technically backward.

In history, the world’s first trans-Atlantic submarine optical cable system was established in 1988. A 6,700-kilometer optical cable was laid between the United States, the United Kingdom, and France in 1988. It contained three pairs of optical fibers, each with a transmission rate of 280Mb/s, the relay station distance is 67 kilometers. This marks the arrival of the era of submarine optical cables.

But now, the American telecommunications company has come up with a plan that is superior to the future plan, but it seems that convincing Europeans is slightly more difficult than in history.

"Can you tell me more specifically?"

It seems to be a reasonable person.

Ralph glanced at the other party, and then it became clear that the other party was sent by the British government.

At this time, Ralph cheered up. If he couldn't persuade this group of people, as long as he persuaded this person, it would be the same.

If you can do business between countries, that side is the best.

Ralph said: "The Internet system composed of the'central nervous' and the'brain' is the most important way of communication in the future. Among them, the most important submarine optical cable system connecting the continents is indispensable. The submarine optical cable system is divided into two parts: onshore equipment and underwater equipment.

The onshore equipment packs and transmits communication services such as voice, image, and data. The underwater equipment is responsible for the processing, sending and receiving of communication signals. Underwater equipment is divided into three parts: submarine optical cable, repeater and branch unit: submarine optical cable is the most important and most vulnerable part. So after the completion, we must often send people to maintain the Internet..."

This can be regarded as a shame: "Submarine cables will be maintained in zones. For security purposes, submarine cables also need to be maintained at ordinary times. If someone removes the submarine cable and adds the optical fiber, the information can be enjoyed. If there is a war, someone may damage the fiber optic cable. So someone must be sent to guard the fiber optic cable line."

The other party needs to weigh the pros and cons in an all-round way. If you don't put the ugly words on the front at this time, it will cause unnecessary trouble.

After saying bad things, it is naturally good: "But once the Internet is connected, we can share all the resources on the Internet. I believe you must have heard of the Galaxy series of supercomputers."

Ralph noticed that everyone was cheering up at this time.

Yes, for many people, the supercomputers of the Galaxy series are much more powerful than the Internet. The famous cloud system uses the supercomputers of the Galaxy series as servers.

"Through the Internet, we can connect to the supercomputer Galaxy on the Internet, and then we can directly command the Galaxy to calculate some of our parameters one by one without us personally running to the supercomputer, and then going to Done. This way of doing our things through the Internet, we call it one-by-one cloud computing!."

Yes, cloud computing.

Strictly speaking, cloud computing is the product of the development and integration of traditional computer and network technologies such as grid computing, distributed computing, parallel computing, utility computing, network storage, virtualization, and load balancing.

But speaking of it, Catherine’s so-called “cloud computing” is very different from true cloud computing. Cloud computing in Yinshi can include all the meanings and concepts of Catherine’s current cloud computing, but Catherine’s The so-called "cloud computing" does not work.

"One by one, of course, this function requires a high cost, so it is a chargeable item. But such a charge, the price is far lower than buying a supercomputer. It only costs 10,000 US dollars a month to be able to enjoy it. The service with the minimum amount of calculation. According to the different channels used, if the maximum is the highest, the monthly usage fee does not exceed 1 million US dollars."

This is definitely a bargain. You know, even if it is based on the highest computer, it is only 12 million US dollars a year, and buying a supercomputer like this would already cost 100 million US dollars.

As long as it is not a large consortium like Rockefeller, basically many people will choose to rent out the calculations. This is a very good method.

Obviously, this time the other party seemed to be finally tempted.

Ralph chuckled secretly, and seemed to be done.

In fact, what Catherine originally wanted to do was distributed computing.

A distributed system is a software system built on the network. It is precisely because of the special characteristics of software that distributed systems have a high degree of cohesion and transparency. Therefore, the difference between network and distributed systems lies more in high-level software (especially operating systems) rather than hardware. Cohesion refers to the high degree of autonomy of each database distribution node and a local database management system. Transparent refers to the fact that each database distribution node is transparent to the user's application, and it cannot be seen whether it is local or remote. In a distributed database system, the user does not feel that the data is distributed, that is, the user does not need to know whether the relationship is divided, whether there is a copy, which site the data is stored in, and which site the transaction is executed on.

With a distributed system, for example, a calculation program can be distributed and run in the entire computer network, and each computer bears the corresponding load and calculation.

As long as there are a sufficient number of computers, it is not impossible to surpass the current Galaxy supercomputer.

But the distributed system ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ seems a little unreliable for 16-bit systems.

According to Catherine's idea, when the five-digit system is reached, it is ready to open up distributed computing methods. At that time, personal computers will be developed in great strides...The meeting is temporarily over.

But Ralph was in a good mood, and it seemed that it didn't take a month to resolve the matter.

"Mr. Ralph, your call is from Japan."

Back at the hotel, Ralph received a call.

"Japan?"

He was a little strange, but he still took the phone in the past.

"The Japanese want to build the Internet?"

When Ralph heard the news inside, his eyes lit up.

It seems...the negotiations with the Europeans can accelerate even faster.

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