Chapter 155 West Coast Fiber Optic Network

"This ......"

Wang Qinian thought for a while.

"My father has a good friend named Liu Guizhen, who is very familiar with qigong."

The implication is that I don't know.

Catherine was a little disappointed. However, Catherine seems to have heard the name Liu Guizhen.

If you think about it, it seems that there is a "Qigong Therapy Practice" written by this person.

"What's your father's name?"

"His name is Wang Shoutian. I emigrated to Europe thirty years ago. ”

A very ordinary Chinese peasant name. However, he did not seem to have had much luck, just in time to emigrate to Europe on the eve of World War II...... But things didn't seem to be going well in China at the time.

Catherine scratched her head, and then she took out her notebook again, but she saw a name: Jin Yong.

Who said that the so-called "qigong" is the same as Jin Yong, fabricating a specious thing, and it will not be long enough?

In China in the future, everyone knows the thing "internal strength", and there are even many people who believe in this thing, but this thing was created in modern martial arts novels.

If you make one like this now, it will be the standard in the future, and everyone will come according to their own intentions.

Catherine thought about it so beautifully, and then roughly explained the structure of her "qi", and then introduced Chunli's story a little.

"That's pretty much the story."

Ania nodded.

"I'll try to draw first, and this story sounds great."

At this time, Wang Qinian on the side suddenly spoke: "Boss, take the liberty of asking, why do you want to use a Chinese as the protagonist of the story?" ”

Chunli was originally Chinese......

Does this need a reason? Catherine tilted her head.

"Don't you find it funny?"

Wang Qinian blinked, but did not speak, as if he was shocked by Catherine's reason.

Then, Catherine began to inspect the company's working environment, after all, this place is rarely visited by herself, so when inspecting, Catherine is still very careful.

By the time Catherine had looked at all the places in the company and then read the documents, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.

"Kate, the painting hasn't been painted yet, how do you see what I'm drawing?"

Ania handed Catherine a few pages of her drawings that had already been drawn.

Aniah's Chunli is three points better than Catherine's, not only the character lines are better, but the whole person also shows a majestic temperament, which is more natural and comfortable than Catherine's painting style born from good children's comics.

I have to say that Aniya is really good at drawing.

Immediately afterward, Catherine arranged Aniah's work.

Generally speaking, American comics are mostly in color, which is a little different from Japanese comics, and Catherine simply transferred a few people over, led by Small, who were specifically responsible for coloring comics. Small's painting style is very good, especially when coloring, which can highlight a sense of softness and three-dimensionality.

After it was done, it was time to get off work, and after Catherine and Anya said goodbye, they took the car to their manor.

However, the name of the manor gave Catherine a headache.

"Elsa"

As soon as she arrived at the manor, Catherine saw Elsa who was one step ahead.

"How's the manor?"

"The basic construction has been completed, and now the wiring is being laid inside, and then there is renovation and so on......"

Catherine looked at the house in the distance, then tilted her head.

"Elsa, what do you say, what is the name of our manor? Rose Manor? Lily Manor? Or Neverland? ”

Catherine struggled with these three names, but she didn't know what to call them.

"Hmmm......"

Elsa also began to think.

"How about calling it Elven Manor?"

"Uh......"

Catherine thought about it, but still didn't have an idea.

"Or would it be Catherine Manor or Edson Manor?"

"Forget it, let's think about it when the manor is built in the future, come, Elsa, let's enjoy our future home first~"

It's just that the current manor can only be seen, not lived, because it is still being renovated, and it has only just begun.

"Looks like we'll be able to move here in June." Regardless, Catherine was satisfied.

Catherine stayed overnight in Los Angeles and then rushed back to New York the next day because he had just received the news that Charles Kao had made a breakthrough in low-loss fiber

Low-loss fiber optics were originally only available in '69 and officially unveiled to the world in '70, but now, Catherine has advanced the process by three years.

What excites Catherine the most is not this, but that her optical fiber can finally be used

The fiber-optic telephone network on Wall Street can be laid, and you can give an account to the Pentagon.

As soon as she arrived at the American Telecommunications research center, Catherine saw a dark-haired, yellow-skinned face, discussing something with a group of technicians.

"Boss"

As the boss behind the company, Catherine is already well-known within the company.

Catherine looked at the yellow-skinned face.

The current father of fiber optics is still very young, and it is not at all like the 21st century.

Charles Kao looked excited, after all, Catherine had invested a lot of money to support his research. It is precisely because of Catherine's importance that Kao Kun did not dare to slack off, and worked day and night to finally get the low-loss optical fiber out.

Looking at Kao's two thick dark circles, Catherine felt a little emotional.

"I'm sure you're excited right now because you've created a new era for the world."

Only Catherine knows what fiber optic networks will bring to the world.

"Now, I announce that from now on, you will be given a month off and each will receive a bonus of $10,000"

There was silence at first, and then a cheer erupted.

The technician was given a holiday by Catherine, but Catherine herself did not have that time to rest.

She immediately wrote a report and handed it to the Office of Quality Supervision and Management, and then began to develop her new plan.

After waiting for more than a week, the second batch of grants finally came down.

$30 million earmarked to study the feasibility of fiber optic networks.

Skynet's appropriation funds and optical fiber appropriation funds are now being used in one place.

There is also $20 million to research more accurate and complete CPUs. Catherine didn't know what these military CPUs were used for, and perhaps the Pentagon was also experimenting with various attempts. Will it be used on missiles?

Once the grant was granted, the second part of Catherine's plan began, and she immediately contacted Stanford University, the University of California, and the University of California, Berkeley, three well-known and soon-to-be universities on the West Coast.

If they were invited to join her, Catherine's plan would have gone smoothly.

Catherine even assured them that if she could join her program, she would be given priority in providing them with a new generation of Microsoft computers, and the second generation of Microsoft computers would provide network services and be able to connect computers.

Catherine told them that if this plan could be completed, she would gradually roll out the fiber optic network - as long as the photoelectric conversion equipment could be reduced, and the universities that had access to the network service in advance could enjoy this service in advance.

Catherine's network is the Internet, and Skynet is debugged within the military, which is a bit different from history.

However, the military and Catherine's new headquarters in California have a line that connects Skynet's network to the Internet, but the Internet does not have access to Skynet's network.

In addition to the university network, Catherine also needed to lay a network.

That is, from the White House to the Pentagon, this network line, Congress and the Pentagon are very welcome.

Officials are generally satisfied that this network is not only for network communication, but also for telephone communication, and that telephones with guò fiber optics will not be eavesdropped at all.

Soon, several of the universities Catherine contacted had a response.

The first to send letters was from Stanford University, which focused on the high-tech route, and was naturally very interested in Catherine's plan, and then from two other schools.

It's just that they need to know more about the network.

In this regard, Catherine Jean Ralph. Roberts went to talk, after all, the other party's original company was a communications company, and it was just right for him to go.

Catherine, on the other hand, started her own West Coast network program.

Catherine's computer uses the Phoenix operating system, which fully supports the network system, and the second-generation Microsoft computer can be called a real computer.

Catherine's plan was to build a real network.

Her ambitions are not limited to a few universities.

What the Internet will bring will be an information explosion.

This is also the basis of the fifth message**.

It would be interesting if we could popularize such a network in the 70s or 80s

In fact, the fact that many things are not going well is not a limitation of the times, it is just that people in this era do not have that kind of concept.

But Catherine knew how to lay out in advance.

First several universities in Guò were connected to each other, then slowly spread to the Ivy League schools on the West Coast, and then gradually radiated to several surrounding regions and established a fiber optic network.

And Catherine believes that with the participation of universities, research on photoelectric converters can also be advanced, and when the time comes, fiber to the home will not be a dream

"West Coast Optical Network Project."

Catherine wrote in her notebook.

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