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After walking around the Pengcheng branch, Zhou Buqi was quite satisfied. He felt that every time he came here, Ziweiyun's server business would perform brilliantly.

This time I came over and what they came up with was a waterproof server.

Even if the server is placed in water, the server can still run normally.

This plan has been planned within Ziweiyun for more than two years, and there has been no technical breakthrough. However, now there is finally a clear solution on the laboratory side.

This is important.

It will be a cost-saving design.

When the server is working, it will release a lot of heat. Once the temperature is too high, the server will malfunction, its service life will be shortened, and there will be frequent downtime.

Therefore, in the design of cloud data centers, cooling facilities often account for 15%-20% of the total cost. Many data centers are set up in places with strong winds in the northwest or north, and are cooled by natural wind, thereby saving air conditioning costs. electrical energy. Facebook recently has a big plan to build a super data center in the Arctic to save energy through the low temperatures of the Arctic.

However, these methods are not very good.

To set up a data center in the remote north or the Arctic, you need to lay hundreds or thousands of kilometers of optical fiber. How much does it cost? We also need employees stationed there for a long time to perform real-time maintenance on the data center. Who is willing to go there?

A better way is to set up the data center in the water, or even under the sea.

Rely on water to cool down.

You no longer have to worry about excessive temperatures, you can be close to big cities, and you don’t have to worry about sending employees abroad.

However, water conducts electricity.

Forget about putting the server in the water, if you throw the phone into the water and don't take it out for a while, the phone will be short-circuited internally and become useless.

If the waterproof technology can be implemented well, the investment in the structure and operation of Ziweixing's cloud data center can be greatly reduced in the future.

Whether it is self-developed modular servers, self-developed dedicated server chips, or self-developed deep-water waterproof servers, the purpose is the same, which is to reduce the cost of cloud data centers.

The cost of a cloud data center is in the billions, and the annual operating costs are hundreds of millions. If these three strategies are successful, the cost can be reduced by at least 50%.

This reflects the competitiveness of Ziweiyun, which can provide cloud services at a lower price.

Next, Zhou Buqi visited the product department of the branch.

This time when he went south, he saw that no matter where Zhang Zetian went, the first thing he did was to connect to the WiFi signal. This inspired him to launch a new product.

The technical difficulty is not too high and can be left to the branch to do it.

The product president of the branch is named Wang Yucheng. This is the first time he has shaken hands with Boss Zhou at such a close distance.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "I have a little idea, let's see if it works."

Wang Yucheng said quickly: "No problem, if you have any orders, just tell me!"

Zhou Buqi said: "Smartphones have become more and more popular now, and the country has long relaxed its policies to allow mobile products to use WiFi functions. However, the domestic supporting facilities have not kept up, and mobile phone network fees have not yet caught up. Prices remain high.”

Wang Yucheng nodded, "Yes, the Internet fee is too expensive. The first thing I do every time I come to the company is to connect my phone to the company's WiFi. The cost of mobile Internet access is still too high."

“If there’s a need, there needs to be a solution.”

"Connect to WiFi?"

"right."

"Make a mobile app..." Wang Yucheng took a deep breath and immediately reacted. "It can help mobile phone users connect to those open WiFi signals for free, so that they can access the Internet for free anytime and anywhere."

When Zhou Buqi saw that he had caught up with his train of thought, he smiled and said, "Yes, that's probably what it means. Many commercial places, such as hotels, restaurants, coffee shops, Internet cafes, etc., have free WiFi signals open to customers. Put these The signals are collected to form a product. When users pass by nearby, they can be prompted whether they need to connect to free WiFi, which can greatly solve the problem of high Internet fees."

Wang Yucheng pondered and said: "It will not be easy to do. It requires a very strong local promotion team..."

"Your local promotion team." Zhou Buqi couldn't help but want to scold him, "The WiFi passwords in those places are either 1234567, 7654321, or eight eights, six sixes, etc. They are all formatted templates. This still can’t be cracked?”

"Crack..."

Wang Yucheng twitched the corners of his lips, now he understood what Boss Zhou meant.

Of course it can be cracked!

With the technical strength of Ziweixing, if you want to crack it... no matter what secret the user has set for WiFi, as long as it is not too complicated, it can be easily cracked.

This is somewhat of a sidekick.

It will somewhat infringe on the privacy of some personal routers. Many people are unknowingly being accessed by others. Some are public hotspots, which is no problem; but some are private WiFi, which can also be cracked and shared.

After all, most people lack privacy awareness.

When setting the router password, for the sake of simplicity, convenience, and ease of remembering, a password like "1234567" is generally used.

Zhou Buqi said: "This can greatly meet market demand and solve the problem of expensive mobile Internet access. At the beginning, the scale can be appropriately larger. Now is the barbaric period of mobile Internet, a stage of land grabbing, and there are not so many rules. . In a few years, when all the land is taken over and each one has to manage it separately, the scale will be reduced appropriately."

Wang Yucheng said: "In a few years, will the price of mobile phone data fees drop? Domestic Internet fees have always been expensive, but compared with ten years ago, they have dropped a lot."

Zhou Buqi said: "That's for sure. The country is developing so fast. In a few years, Internet fees will be significantly reduced. But it doesn't affect it. There are still too many people at the bottom of the country who are frugal. , there will still be a big market for similar products."

Wang Yucheng said "Yeah", "Everyone is short of traffic sometimes."

Zhou Buqi said: "That's not all. The domestic development is very fast, and in many aspects it is not too bad compared to developed countries. But there are too many developing countries in the world, and mobile phone users in those countries will also Worrying about mobile phone data charges.”

Wang Yucheng's complexion changed slightly, and he immediately became awe-inspiring.

This was something he had never considered.

Or say that he is the big boss!

This field of view is really big enough.

Designing a product should not only target the domestic market, but also target the international market.

The opportunity to compete in overseas markets doubled Wang Yucheng's pressure, and at the same time, a strong fighting spirit swept through his body.

If this thing is done, why worry about not being able to get promoted and make a fortune?

Thanks to the big boss for your support!

Zhou Buqi didn't say much, "Okay, that's it. Let's go and have a look first and come up with a sample as soon as possible. I'll keep an eye on it."

Seeing that the big boss was about to leave, Wang Yucheng hurriedly asked: "What about the name? Do you want to use the Weidian brand?"

"Don't use microdots."

Zhou Buqi rejected the proposal without hesitation.

Named with the prefix "Micro Dot", relying on the inertia generated by so many products in the Micro Dot system, there is no doubt that this product can be quickly promoted in the market.

But this is not a conventional product after all.

Especially in the early stages.

The nature of edge-passing is very serious. In order to obtain more sharing hot spots, users' WiFi passwords will be violently cracked. This is somewhat shameful.

Once it is exposed, it will affect the brand image of "Weidian".

It's better to name it separately, don't touch Porcelain Micro Point.

However, in the end, Zhou Buqi still gave his own idea, "It can be called WiFi master key, which is easier to understand."

Wang Yucheng smiled and said: "Very good."