Orlando Brian, who has been with Lucent Technologies for many years and recently succeeded his predecessor as CEO, held a meeting on his first day in power to announce that he would take Lucent Technologies into the field of network communications. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

With the development of the computer Internet, as an industry elite, he is well aware of how huge the business opportunities are. Just look at HP, IBM, Microsoft and their development, as the computing power of the CPU is getting higher and higher, the comprehensive production cost of computers will definitely be lower and lower, and it is only a matter of time before personal computers go to thousands of households.

Lucent has long realized the importance of technology and established a close cooperative relationship with Bell Labs many years ago.

Bell Labs is one of the few R&D institutions in the industry, and its R&D is divided into three stages: one is the invention or innovation of Bell Labs itself, the other is to evolve and update its own products, and the other is to absorb new technologies and new products through mergers and acquisitions in Europe and other regions.

Over the past century, it has brought countless innovative technologies and products to the world, including fax machines, push-button telephones, electronic speech synthesis devices, data-based networks, even transistors, mobile phone technology, solar cells, lasers, and even the UNIX operating system. It can be said that with such a laboratory as a reserve resource, Lucent's development potential is beyond doubt.

However, when the newly appointed Orlando set his sights on the field of routers, he immediately found trouble.

There have never been many companies that have done it as thoroughly as Cisco, and Orlando has rummaged through all the technologies of the product, and is shocked and helpless to find that the other party has applied for patent protection for all the individual technologies. With this magic weapon, any rash imitation has become a big death without a doubt, and the other party only needs to send someone to the court easily, and the other party has to wait for the summons.

Moreover, the registrants of these patents are...... Alice Wang?"

A completely unfamiliar name, Orlando thought and thought, and didn't know from which crack in the rock she was jumping out of the roadblock.

Obviously, as long as any of these patents have not been applied, with the help of Bell Laboratories and Lucent's heritage over the years, the same type of products can be easily developed. But when patents for all known technologies become the exclusive property of others, there is simply too little room left for Lucent.

Fortunately, Orlando received a gratifying news, after the people at Bell Labs made a fool, Cisco really sent the patched iOS system over!

Even if it's just a patch, there must be a core technology in it!

However, this good news has no lasting meaning in the slightest, not even to the point of letting the news stay overnight.

"What did you say!?"

In the CEO's office before work, Orlando stared angrily across from him, and a Bell Labs executive was standing in front of him, a wry smile on his face from the moment he entered the room.

"The technology used in this patch...... Patented!?"

Orlando tried his best to endure the headache: "From the time we submitted the customer service complaint to the time the other party sent the patch back, it was a total of five days. You mean that in such a short period of time, the other party has not only made a patch, but also has time to patent it!?"

God, are you kidding!?

"Cisco Systems has only been established for a year!? How can such a small company be so good at patent warfare? Moreover, five days of making patches and applying for patents, how can they be so efficient? Is the whole company busy with this? Is it that their company has so many people that it can be wasted!?"

Looking at the CEO's crazy appearance, the head of Bell Labs ...... Really wanted to nod his last two words.

According to market research, the only product of Cisco systems is a router, and IOS is included in the hardware product, of course, it may have been included in the price of the product. One hardware and one software, when a company with a total number of people should not exceed 50, and learns that one of its only two products, the entire iOS, has crashed, it is normal for the whole company to make patches, okay?

"Bastard bastard bastard!"

Orlando scolded and smashed the table, looked up coldly, saw that the person in charge was still standing there, waved his hand and said, "You go back first, let me ...... quietly"

When the man was gone, Orlando sat back in his chair and sighed deeply.

Router.

Orlando understands that the word has definitely become his own dream demon.

Easily connecting networks with different protocols, both in size and cost, is a fraction of the current mainstream dedicated computer, and the low price of $2,000 can be described as murderous. But Orlando knows that there is one company that is definitely more anxious than itself.

That's IBM.

As the world's largest information technology and business solutions company, IBM will never let go of the Internet hardware market. Although I don't know how big the market is for this small company that has only been established for a year, Orlando is very confident, with the strong strength of the blue giant, even if the other party's strength is ten times stronger, it is useless, no, a hundred times is helpless.

You know, as early as 1967, IBM hit a peak market value of $192.3 billion. That year, the GDP of the whole United States was only about 830 billion, although it is different from the past, but there is no suspense at all when a giant steps on an ant!

"A new challenge begins. ”

At the dinner table at night, after Alice said the cause and effect with a solemn expression, Sophie concluded: "Actually, this is a very normal thing, a company has different challenges at different scales, and Cisco has also come to the time. ”

At the end of the table, Oscar and Hannah listened intently to their mother's speech. Discussing the development of the enterprise at dinner is not something that any child can be fortunate enough to encounter, Oscar is okay, Jiao Erlang is holding his chin with his hand, and Hannah is listening with a straight back, not an ordinary well-behaved.

"For most start-ups, the number one priority is survival, which is to make a profit. Don't underestimate this, anyone can have the idea of starting a business, but they can afford the cost, and there is a net profit after paying all the costs, which is enough to brush off 90% of entrepreneurs. ”

Seeing that the other two children in the family were also listening attentively, Sophie was happy to start with the basics. Of course, Alice didn't care, and James looked at Oscar with a look of relief, although the latter was trying to act as if he understood, at least trying, wasn't he?

"You know, the so-called competitor, is a relative word. A company is our opponent, which also means that we are also their competitors, and for many start-ups that are still struggling to survive, they are not even qualified to be competitors to others. Oscar, Hannah, this is common in many ways, remember. ”

Oscar nodded, and Hannah interjected: "It's like, if Oscar's grades are the bottom of the class, then the first place in the class won't take him seriously at all, but the second to last will be very dangerous, right?"

"Hannah!What kind of bullshit is this!?"

"Oscar!How do you talk to your sister!?"

"Hey~Hannah's example is good~"

After a burst of relaxed laughter, James, who was sitting in the first place, spoke: "So Weiwei, since that Lucent Technology is going to compete with Cisco in the router market, what are your countermeasures?"

Alice pondered for a moment and said: "There is patent protection, and the other party has to go around a super big circle, or simply develop other types of products in the same field, so I also told Bosak some time ago that they should start preparing for the research and development of switches." ”

"The advantages of the other party are the mature market size, abundant capital and talent reserves, and the presence of Bell Labs. Our number one advantage...... Well, don't laugh, it's my little superman...... Ahem, don't laugh, don't laugh!"

In the end, even Alice herself got up with the silly hehe, and after everyone was happy, she continued: "The second advantage is patent protection, which can at least give us a time advantage." Therefore, under this premise, we should start to develop more advanced models, speak with dry goods, and beat Lucent's products in terms of performance. ”

"But that's all there is to it. ”

Sophie summed it up to her: "Whether it is market or capital, you can't compare to Lucent, if the other party really makes achievements in this field, we have to admit that for a long time, it will always be our most competitive opponent." ”

Alice propped her chin in her hands and swept her gaze around, and in her heart, countless historical decisions were emerging from the depths of her memory.

"Well...... this"

She blinked and lowered her eyelids, her bright blue eyeballs in a position to avoid being seen by her family.

"It's good to say, before the nineties, their achievements must have ...... Limited...... bar. ”