New York and other major cities are playing out exciting scenes.

It is common to see all kinds of people marching in the streets, giving speeches, gatherings, and camping, including soldiers, blacks, hippies, and social idlers, who in this way tell the dissatisfaction and opinions of their respective classes about society and politics.

It is a society full of passion and impetuousness.

The civil rights movement of the 60s was in full swing, affecting all aspects of American society, and even radiating to European countries. Under the deliberate impetus of President Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and others, the country and the world are changing drastically, and countless people are desperately throwing themselves into this great struggle and movement.

Alex is at most standing on the sidelines and watching this kind of thing, but he doesn't have the slightest idea to get involved, and at most when something is not going to his eye, he will reach out and intervene, and he is not stuck in the quagmire and can't get out.

What he paid the most attention to was not the various movements, violence, peaceful demonstrations and other incidents in society. It is the progress of technological research in the scientific community, especially in the fields of rockets and satellites, electronic appliances, and computers.

Today, there happened to be something in this area to find him, it was the research report of Noyce, Moore and others of the Ark Company, after several years of hard work, the PC computer launched by the Ark Company has been popularized. The performance of PCs in this era has reached the level of the early Apple computer, the Apple II., and in some respects even far exceeds it.

For example, the PC computers of this era have long adopted the operating system with a graphical interface. In addition to the simple mosquito display function, it also includes the display of image functions, even the display of color pictures, and audio processing functions.

This computer produced by the Ark Company, named Noah series, has launched its third generation, and a total of tens of millions of PCs have been produced. The Noah series of computers became a huge hit when they came out, selling more than one million units in the first year, and then new models were launched every three years, and each model was a big hit. The original model was not withdrawn from the market, but was sold at a reduced price.

As a research, production and sales one-stop computer company. The Ark Company was undoubtedly extremely successful. Its appearance not only changed the life trajectory of the eight rebellions, but also changed the world world, allowing many computer products to appear in advance.

Now Noyce, More, although most of them are only in their thirties and less than forty. But what has been achieved that most people have not been able to achieve. They look so high-spirited. Life is very knowledgeable.

However, they also need to be accountable to others, such as Alex. In normal times, there will also be people to monitor the progress of their work.

In the conference room, everyone was looking at a middle-aged man wearing black-rimmed glasses and looking very stable, telling that he was the talented and insightful Noyes. As a child, Noyce was an adventurous man who loved crafts, used every minute of his free time to build his own motorized sled, and dared to make model airplanes and fly them himself.

Now, Noyes, who has made great achievements, stands in front of Alex and others with the manuscript of the speech in his hand. He gushed and said: "The production and sales of our Ark Company in the past few years have been reported just now, and now let's talk about the network technology of the personal computer we have studied......

Hearing this, Alex immediately lifted his spirits, he had been paying attention to this aspect for a long time. Since the establishment of the Ark Company, he has mentioned this aspect to the Eight Rebellions, and arranged related research tasks.

It is not until today that there is a glimmer of light in the art of network technology.

It is not difficult to connect to the local area network, but the difficult thing is to create an Internet out of nothing. The emergence of a new technique always requires many failures and efforts to achieve success.

Fortunately, there is Alex in this world, otherwise, even if someone thought of the concept of the Internet, they would not have come up so quickly.

"The software problem of the Internet has long been solved by Alex, as for the hardware, the server can be replaced by a supercomputer, the key is the way of networking. In total, we have developed and experimented with several ways to connect to the Internet, two of which are connected to the network through existing telephone lines, i.e. directly through the modem dial-up and through ADSL, and their advantages and disadvantages have been listed in the document. ”

"In general, the first way to access the Internet is less expensive and slow. The second is the opposite, but the cost of renovation is still relatively moderate, within the affordable range. The last way to connect to the network is through optical fiber, which is the fastest, but the cost of this input is also the highest. ”

Noyce's remarks caused a lot of discussion among the people present, they are all computer talents in this era, and of course they can see the great value of the Internet. I agree with Alex's idea very much, and they are all pioneers who resolutely promote Internet technology.

It's just that they still have a lot of disagreements on how to realize the networking method and how to maximize the benefits. In particular, there is a lot of controversy about the investment in large and small returns on optical fiber, and today's optical fiber technology is not very perfect, not to mention the high price and prone to failure.

"In terms of optical fiber, I don't think you need to take it into account, after all, the conditions in terms of technology and capital are limited, and I am afraid that the cost of getting this phone is too great." One of the senior executives spoke up and said, "Nowadays, there are only two options: dial-up and ADSL, as long as you can connect to the network, even if it is slower, it can be developed slowly." ”

As soon as he finished saying this, someone disagreed: "It's all built on the infrastructure of AT&T, what if people don't cooperate with us, or if they insist on taking the lion's share, we can only talk to soup or something?" ”

AT&T is the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, an American telecommunications company founded in 1877 and has long monopolized the long-distance and local telephone market in the United States. It was formerly known as the Bell Company. In 1899, AT&T integrated the business and assets of Bell to become the parent company of Bell Systems.

Historically, the company was not broken up until 1984, when the U.S. Department of Justice split into eight companies under the Antitrust Act, including a new AT&T company that inherited the name of the parent company, and seven local telephone companies, the so-called Bell Brothers.

Since then, the U.S. telecommunications business has truly entered the era of competition. Otherwise. The U.S. telecommunications business has always been monopolized by AT&T. No one can challenge it in this field, and any company that dares to oppose it has collapsed or been acquired.

If the Ark does not use the fiber solution, it will definitely not be able to bypass the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T). There must be no way to get a lot of benefits from working with the other party.

When someone puts this question up. Immediately, someone strongly objected: "Our Ark Company has invested so much manpower, material resources and time to enter it. It's not about being someone else's salaryman! If we had partnered with AT&T, we would not have been able to get out of this position. ”

"yes, AT&T is too strong. It is impossible to tolerate us making money in their user market. In case they see that it is profitable, they can wait until we cultivate the market and come up with another set of things on their own, and then throw us aside. That's the end of the fun! ”

Such remarks were echoed by many people present, who had not seen what AT&T had done, otherwise it would not have been possible for this company to monopolize the US telephone market for more than a century.

Noyce is the only one who doesn't think so, saying, "With AT&T's infrastructure, capital and manpower, our Internet can develop at the fastest speed." ”

"As long as we firmly grasp the key technologies of the Internet, we are not afraid of not being able to share the benefits! In my opinion, it is in our best interest to choose to cooperate with AT&T. ”

He is in his early forties this year, and he is very lucky to be one of the top two in the Ark Company. After so many years of hard work, he has long been accustomed to a steady and steady way of doing things. Not only is he well-versed in business skills, but he also understands corporate politics and has the patience to deal with non-skilled people.

Neuss's statement is actually quite correct, if the Ark company can always lead the development of Internet technology, and at the same time can grasp some basic hardware and technology in hand, such as root domain name services, etc., it can make money while sitting.

It's just that some people don't think that way, especially Moore, who has a good personal relationship with Noyce, but has a very different view on this aspect.

Moore retorted with some excitement: "Judging from the current speed of computer hardware development, Internet technology will definitely develop faster and faster in the future, and if we take a conservative attitude to deal with this field, we will inevitably be eliminated by the times." Even if we can make money in the future, then this field will not belong to us, and the times will not be led by us! ”

For a moment, the entire conference room was noisy, and Alex was the only one who watched them speak and argue without saying a word.

No matter what they thought, it was Alex who had to make the decision in the end, and when they were almost discussed, they all stared at Alex for him to come up with an idea.

Alex smiled slightly, and he slowly said to everyone: "You don't have to think too much about the problem of cooperating with AT&T and how to cooperate. I think the only way to do this is to send someone to contact them before we can think about it further. ”

After a pause, he continued to ask, "In terms of technical patents, we have already completed the formalities, right?" There are no problems with several ways to access the Internet, optical fiber network technology and optical fiber manufacturing technology, etc.? ”

Noyce was slightly stunned, and quickly replied: "No problem, we have already applied for these patents." Although I have heard that some people are also working on fiber optic technology, they are much later than us, and unless they can have an invention that is ahead of the times, they will definitely not be able to get around our patent barriers. ”

Alex and they were all relieved a lot after hearing this, these patents were an important bargaining chip in their hands. After a while, Alex continued: "My opinion is to continue to improve the optical fiber network technology, manufacturing process, etc., reduce the failure rate, reduce costs, even if we can't use the optical fiber network now, it will definitely be used in the future, after all, the society is moving forward, and the technology will continue to be updated, and it is possible to use optical fiber technology in the near future." ”

This remark was very well agreed by everyone, and they nodded yes one after another, which also set a tone, that is, to be prepared with both hands.

On the one hand, we sent people to discuss cooperation with AT&T, and on the other hand, we did not relax the research and development of optical fiber technology. As for the Ark, they had to build a prototype of the network in the shortest possible time, so that the negotiators would have bargaining chips in their hands, so that AT&T would not pay attention to them. (To be continued......)