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Chapter 155 West Coast Fiber Optic Network

"this……"

Wang Qinian thought for a while.

"My father has a good friend named Liu Guizhen. He is very familiar with Qigong."

The implication is that you don’t know?

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

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that there is a "Qigong Therapy Practice" written by this person.

"What's your father's name?"

"His name is Wang Shoutian. He immigrated to Europe thirty years ago."

The name of a very ordinary Chinese farmer. However, he seemed to be unlucky. He immigrated to Europe just in time for the eve of World War II... but the situation in China did not seem to be good at that time either.

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

Who said it must be so-called "Qigong"? Just like Jin Yong, just fabricate a specious thing and it will be done soon?

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

If you make one like this now, it will become the standard in the future, and everyone will follow their own intentions.

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

"The specific story is almost like this."

Aniya nodded.

"I'll try painting first. This story sounds very good."

At this time, Wang Qinian on the side suddenly spoke: "Boss, I would like to ask, why do you want to use a Chinese as the protagonist of the story?"

Chunli is originally Chinese...

Does this still need a reason? Catherine tilted her head.

"Don't you find it interesting?"

Wang Qinian blinked but said nothing. He seemed to be shocked by Catherine's reason.

Then, Catherine began to inspect the company's working environment. After all, she rarely visited this place, so Catherine was very careful when inspecting.

By the time Catherine had looked at all parts of the company and reviewed the information documents, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.

"Kate, the painting hasn't been colored yet. How do you think my painting looks?"

Aniya handed several pages of already drawn drawings to Catherine.

The Chun Li drawn by Aniya is actually three points more beautiful than Catherine's. Not only the character lines are better, but the whole person also shows a majestic temperament, which is similar to Catherine's painting style that was born out of the Good Child comics.

It looks more natural and comfortable than .

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

Immediately afterwards, Catherine arranged Aniya's work.

Generally speaking, most American comics are in color, which is a little different from Japanese comics. Catherine simply transferred a few people, headed by Small, who were specifically responsible for coloring comics. Small's painting style is very good

, especially when coloring, it can highlight a sense of softness and three-dimensionality.

After everything was settled and it was time to get off work, Catherine and Aniya said goodbye and took a 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 had gone ahead.

"How's the manor going?"

"The basic construction has been completed, and now we are laying lines inside, and then there are decorations and so on..."

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

"Elsa, tell me, what would be a good name for our manor? Rose Manor? Lily Manor? Or Neverland?"

Catherine has been torn between these three names, but she just doesn't know which one should be called more appropriately.

"Um……"

Elsa also started to think.

"How about calling it Elf Manor?"

"Well……"

Catherine thought for a while, but still had no idea.

"Otherwise, let's call it Catherine Manor or Edson Manor?"

"Forget it, let's wait until the manor is built and think about it later. Come on, Elsa, let's take a look at our future home first~"

However, the current manor can only be viewed, not lived in, because it is still being renovated, and it has only just begun.

"It looks like we can move here by June." In any case, Catherine was very satisfied.

Catherine stayed in Los Angeles for one night and then rushed back to New York the next day because he had just received news: Kao Kun had made a breakthrough in low-loss optical fiber.

Low-loss optical fiber originally appeared in 1969 and was officially announced to the world in 1970. 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 put to practical use.

The fiber optic telephone network on Wall Street can be laid out, and I can give an explanation to the Pentagon.

As soon as she arrived at the research center of US Telecom, Catherine saw a face with black hair and yellow skin, discussing something with a group of technicians.

"boss"

As the company's behind-the-scenes boss, Catherine is already very famous within the company.

Catherine looked at the yellow-skinned face.

The current father of optical fiber is still very young and does not look like the 21st century at all.

Gao Kun looked very excited. After all, Catherine had invested a large amount of money to support his research. Precisely because of Catherine's high regard, Gao Kun did not dare to neglect, and worked day and night to finally develop a low-loss optical fiber.

Out.

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

"I believe you must be very excited now because you have created a new era for this world."

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

"Now, I announce that from now on, you will get a month's vacation and each of you will receive a bonus of $10,000."

There was silence for a while, then a burst of cheers broke out.

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

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

After waiting for more than a week, the second batch of funds was finally received.

$30 million in dedicated funding to study the feasibility of fiber optic networks.

Skynet's appropriation funds and fiber optic appropriation funds are now used in the same place.

There is also another 20 million US dollars for research on more accurate and complete CPUs. Catherine doesn’t know what these military CPUs are used for. Maybe the Pentagon is also making various attempts. Could it be used on missiles?

After the funding was obtained, the second part of Catherine's plan began. She immediately contacted Stanford University, the University of California, and the University of California, Berkeley, three famous and soon-to-be famous universities on the West Coast.

If they can be invited to join her experiment, Catherine's plan can go smoothly.

Catherine even promised them that if they can join her plan, she can give them priority in providing them with a new generation of Microsoft computers. The second generation of Microsoft computers will provide network services and enable computer interconnection.

Catherine told them that if this plan can be completed, she will gradually lay out the optical fiber network - as long as the photoelectric conversion equipment can be reduced, and the universities that enjoy network services in advance can enjoy this in advance.

Serve.

Catherine's network is intercom, and skycom is debugged within the military. This is somewhat different from history.

However, there is a line connecting the military and Catherine's new headquarters in California. This line can connect the skycom network to the intercom network, but intercom cannot enter the skycom network.

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

That is, from the White House to the Pentagon, this network line is welcomed by both Congress and the Pentagon.

You should know that this network not only carries out network communications, but also provides telephone communications. Telephone calls through optical fiber will be completely unable to be eavesdropped. Officials are generally very satisfied.

Soon, several universities that Catherine contacted responded.

The first person to send a letter was Stanford University. They focus on high-tech, so they were naturally very interested in Catherine's plan. Then the other two schools also sent letters.

It's just that they need to understand the network problems in detail.

In this regard, Catherine asked Ralph Roberts to negotiate. After all, the other party's original company was a communications company, so it was just right for him to go there.

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

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

Catherine's plan is to build a real network.

Her ambitions go beyond just a few universities.

What the Internet will bring will be an information explosion.

This is also the basis for the fifth information revolution.

How interesting it would be if such a network could be popularized in the 1970s or 1980s.

In fact, the fact that many things are not developing smoothly is not a limitation of the times, it is just that people of this era do not have that concept.

But Catherine knows how to plan ahead.

First, it was interconnected through several universities, and then slowly spread to the Ivy League schools on the West Coast, and then gradually radiated to several surrounding areas and established a fiber optic network.

Moreover, Catherine believes that with the participation of universities, research on photoelectric converters can also make progress. By then, fiber-to-the-home will no longer be a dream.

"West Coast Optical Network Plan."

Catherine wrote this in her notebook.

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