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Kao Kun carried his briefcase and walked into the company called "American Telecommunications."

Just a month ago, he switched jobs from the International Telephone and Telegraph Company and traveled thousands of miles from the UK to come here.

"American Telecommunications Corporation..."

He muttered something in Chinese.

There is no other reason why I accepted the employment from the telecommunications company and switched jobs here from the International Telephone and Telegraph Company.

——Because the telecommunications company "Chengpiao Astronomy Communications" project was handed over to Gao Kun.

This US$30 million is entirely my own responsibility.

Kao Kun is a man with dreams.

What he values ​​​​is not the annual salary of millions per year, nor the 5% of shares that may be worth hundreds of millions or even more in the future.

It's optical fiber.

As the future "Father of Optical Fiber", he has a talent that others do not have in this regard.

In 1966, Kao Kun would achieve a breakthrough in optical fiber physics - he calculated how to transmit light over long distances in optical fibers. This achievement eventually led to the advent of the optical fiber communication system, and it was optical fiber communication that

The development of today's Internet has paved the way.

From the very beginning of Catherine's plan, she skipped the telephone copper wires and looked directly at the optical fibers!

"Mr. Gao, welcome."

A man came up to him. He was Ralph Roberts, the CEO of the telecommunications company.

Since she wanted to set up a company, Catherine thought that starting from scratch seemed inappropriate, so she simply acquired a company, acs - the future Comcast.

Comcast (comcast-corporation, nasdaq: cmcsa) is a major cable TV, broadband network and IP phone service provider and content provider in the United States. It is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Comcast is also a

The second largest Internet service provider in the United States, second only to Att. Comcast ranked 237th in the Fortune Global 500 in 2009. This company later even acquired Att's broadband business, which is very powerful!

The founder of this company is Ralph Roberts.

To be honest, Catherine remembered this person not because of the company, but because of the name "Ralph". Because Catherine once liked to play a game called KOF, and there was a person named Ralph in it.

, so when Catherine read the introduction in the book, she immediately remembered this person.

In 1963, Ralph Roberts founded the company in Tupelo, Lee County, Mississippi. At first, the company was called American-Cable-Systems to provide cable television services to the city. Within a few years, it bid for cable TV in nearby areas of Mississippi and Pennsylvania.

Television service franchise to increase the number of subscribers.

Comcast was founded in 1969, so it is now acs.

"Hello, Mr. Roberts."

Gao Kun also greeted the other party politely.

"The working environment here is very good, I think you will like it here."

The other party smiled at Gao Kun to dispel his nervousness.

Because we are surrounded by white people, a yellow face is always strange in front of everyone. This is not the 21st century, and yellow people are quite rare.

But Gao Gun was already used to this.

"Nice to meet you."

"Me too."

The two held hands together.

They just greeted each other, but no one may know that a new era will be opened between them.

At IBM, Watson encountered a problem.

The company also has the intention to develop microcomputers.

The personal computer is a very important thing, and Watson has already realized it.

Although his subordinates still believed that the ridiculous calculator was not a personal computer, Watson had a different view than his subordinates.

But now he has no way to move towards personal computers.

It's not that Watson doesn't want to develop micro-CPUs, but that Catherine has a total of 48 core technology patents on CPUs, plus peripheral patents, there are nearly a hundred patents in total!

Not only that, but there are also RAM, commonly known as memory patents, and Catherine also has dozens of them!

Little Watson looked at these data. He really didn't know what expression he should use to face the almost 17-year-old girl.

This is completely based on IBM!

That's right.

Catherine is learning from IBM.

Historically, the patent fortress built by IBM with hundreds or thousands of patents every year was not so easy to break.

Even in an era when the patent pool was regarded as a monopoly and suppressed, IBM's patent applications never stagnated, but increased year by year.

For example, in LCD monitors, IBM firmly holds patents.

IBM as a whole has 170 patents in TFT and LCD!

That’s just the monitor! That’s not all!

Although Watson is feeling aggrieved here, if you ask yourself, Catherine really didn't go as far as IBM itself. She only applied for technologies in key core areas.

But it is precisely because of these core patents that the road is blocked.

Other companies want to get involved?

Can!

However, you must pay the patent fee to Intel, or in other words, Catherine herself!

Will the other party authorize it to IBM?

Little Watson didn't believe it.

Little Watson found that he was always struggling recently, and it was all for Intel.

There is another person who is also struggling with this issue, and that is Catherine.

Her grand plan of integrating three networks into one suffered a major blow.

——Optical fiber is an optical signal and transmits digital information.

But when it comes to inputting to a TV... it's simply impossible. Unless those users install a converter many times larger than their TV.

Not only that, after the optical signal is switched, a machine of about the same size is used to convert the digital signal into an analog signal.

digital tv?

That's a product of the 21st century!

This is simply not realistic!

Fiber optics for civilian use is really a headache!

Suddenly, Catherine fell into an extreme headache

But Catherine soon zeroed in on a group of unlucky children.

Pentagon Headquarters.

——Yes, the Pentagon itself!

If it doesn't work for civilian use, why don't we develop optical fiber for military use?

Fiber optics are very effective in preventing leaks!

Optical fibers cannot be cut by hand, but if they are broken, they must be welded using a fusion splicer.

Unlike copper fiber, which can be used to steal data by just connecting a line, fiber optic is a dedicated line, so eavesdropping is impossible!