The next day, Dean Zhu’s office.

As soon as Fang Chen arrived, Dean Zhu threw him a document without raising his head.

Looking at Dean Zhu, who didn't even bother to say a word to himself, Fang Chen couldn't help but curl his lips, it was really overwhelming for a senior official.

To be honest, Dean Zhu should learn from him on how to be polite and polite to the people below.

Look at him. When you see him on a daily basis, from Duan Yongping to ordinary employees of the company, most of the time, he is greeted with a smile, and there is only praise and no criticism.

But when he arrived at Dean Zhu's place, it was great. It was clearly Dean Zhu who called him over, but he ignored him.

However, if Duan Yongping heard these words, he would probably roll his eyes to the sun. Dean Zhu, like him, is in charge of specific things, but the scope of Dean Zhu's management is much wider than him.

Naturally, the person in charge must act vigorously and strictly and follow the rules.

Say something unpleasant.

In the daily work of the company, Fang Chen is a spiritual totem if he is nice and obedient, and he is a mascot if he is unpleasant.

What else does a mascot do if he doesn't smile all day long?

Despite all the slander, Fang Chen honestly found a sofa, nestled in it, and read the document.

However, just after turning two pages, Fang Chen sat in an extremely casual, even wanton posture. He straightened up instantly and started reading seriously.

This document is actually a preliminary discussion draft on the construction of China's high-speed network backbone network.

As mentioned before, in fact, both fixed lines and networks are connected by backbone networks at levels one after another in regions, provinces, cities, counties, towns, etc.

And since it was taken out from Dean Zhu's hands and titled "Construction of China's High-Speed ​​Network Backbone Network," this document naturally talks about the construction of China's most important regional-level backbone network.

This regional backbone network is built with eight important central cities in China including Yanjing, Shencheng, Yangcheng, Fengtian, Jinling, Jiangcheng, Tianfu and Chang'an as the core layer.

After the first step is completed, these eight central cities will each be responsible for the construction tasks of connecting several surrounding provinces and cities.

Of course, the three most important cities are Yanjing, Shencheng and Yangcheng. According to the construction guidelines, two international export routers will be installed in each of these three cities to connect to the international Internet.

It can be said that once this construction guide is completed, all provinces in China will have the ability to connect to the Internet and will no longer be an isolated island in the international Internet.

To be honest, aside from his status as Chairman of Qingtian and the richest man in the world, as a communicator, it is undoubtedly very honorable and even glorious for him to witness with his own eyes the construction of the backbone of China's high-speed network.

After all, this is China's highest-level, most difficult, most investment-intensive network construction.

But thinking about those days, in his previous life, he could not even make money from the construction of the highest-level backbone network, even the construction of the county-level backbone network. At most, he could only do some scrap work on the access network, which was better than that.

Installing broadband and fiber optics into your home is not much more difficult for a technician.

Fang Chen felt really sad for a while, he couldn't bear to look back on the past.

"I called you some time ago, and you should have checked it out. Now look at this document. Do you have any thoughts or suggestions?" Dean Zhu suddenly put down his pen and asked.

"No problem, it's good. These eight central cities have basically covered most of our country. At that time, all provinces will need to connect with each other. The three key cities connected to the global Internet will also have their own

Backup has basically met the current domestic high-speed network construction and the demand for global Internet connections," said Fang Chen.

"That's good. Now that the global Internet wave has unfolded, building high-speed networks in China and cultivating the Internet industry are crucial to all mankind, especially China. It is even related to whether China can catch up with the third industry.

At the end of the revolution, it is of great significance to allow China's economic development and scientific and technological development to move towards a healthy and sustainable development path..."

Speaking of this, seeing Fang Chen listening attentively on the surface, but his eyes were wandering, and it seemed that he was deserting, Dean Zhu instantly felt boring, and even felt like he was playing a machete in front of Guan Gong's gate.

After all, when it comes down to it, how many people in the world have a better understanding and emphasis on the Internet than Fang Chen?

In the Western world, with the listing of Netscape and the gradual disclosure of some of Fang Chen's previous views on the Internet, some good people have called Fang Chen the "Father of the Internet", "Pioneer of the Internet" and so on.

title.

"Father of the Internet", he felt that Fang Chen was a bit unworthy. After all, at Fang Chen's age, he was not qualified to be called the father of anything, but "Pilot of the Internet" was somewhat well-deserved.

Even if Fang Chen didn't know so much about the Internet and had such great influence, how could he come to talk to Fang Chen.

Seeing Dean Zhu's expression change, Fang Chen quickly pretended to sit upright and listen carefully.

"Then if this construction task is handed over to Qingtian, is Qingtian confident that he can complete it?"

At this moment, Dean Zhu was no longer in the mood to talk to Fang Chen and asked seriously.

Fang Chen was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help but laugh bitterly. He now knew why Dean Zhu made such a fuss, called him to learn about the domestic Internet, and asked for his opinion.

The co-author is waiting for him here.

"I'm not confident." Fang Chen said directly, "Although Qingtian is a communications company, the three major sectors it is currently engaged in, namely fixed-line telephone, mobile network, and wireless paging network, are far from building high-speed network backbones.

Very far."

To be honest, when Dean Zhu asked him just now, he felt really excited and wanted to agree immediately.

As a communicator, being able to participate in the construction of the highest-level backbone network in the country is something that can be boasted for a lifetime, not to mention that he can also appear as the general person in charge.

To put it bluntly, this alone is enough to make his name go down in history and become a worshiped presence in the Chinese communications industry.

But as the saying goes, there is no diamond, no porcelain job. Qingtian has never built a high-speed network, not even a municipal backbone network. How can he give Qingtian something as important as a regional backbone network?

Practice.

Once something goes wrong, you will be a sinner through the ages.

Moreover, according to his understanding, in the previous life, although China's backbone network was built by itself after 2005, before that time, China's backbone network was basically built by foreign companies.

And the equipment used is also from foreign companies.

There is no way, because Chinese companies do not have that technology, let alone the ability to build a backbone network. The development of the network is urgent, so it can only be left to foreign companies.

This is also the reason why China’s network security has been in the hands of foreign countries for a long time.

From the network to the hardware to the software, everything is owned by others, and with the gangster nature of those white people, how could they not install all kinds of backdoors?

Didn’t you see, in the Iraq war, why was Iraq so badly beaten? Isn’t it because important departments such as the Ministry of National Defense purchased a batch of French printers, and there was a backdoor in the printers.

After the war, all electronic equipment in Iraq was paralyzed. How could we not lose?

It seemed that Dean Zhu was not surprised by Fang Chen's answer. He glanced at Fang Chen and said, "What if China needs you to build it?"

Hearing this, Fang Chen was stunned for a moment, and his entire body became silent for a moment. His face turned blue and white, uncertain.

Seeing this, Dean Zhu came over from behind the desk, sat on the sofa next to Fang Chen and said: "I believe that the importance and importance you attach to domestic information security is definitely more than that of every Chinese person, even me.

Inside."

"Based on your knowledge, do you think that domestic communications security, the lifeline of communications, such an important matter, can be left in the hands of foreign companies?"

Fang Chen smiled bitterly and said helplessly: "No."

"That's right. If there is no Qingtian and you Fang Chen in the country, then I will naturally say nothing and hold my nose and admit it. Who said that our skills are inferior to others, and we will be beaten if we fall behind. The worst is that one day, we will

China's own enterprises and their own technology have made progress, and when they can support the burden, they can continue to support it."

"But now, with Qingtian and you, it's different. I think you and Qingtian still have the ability and ability to build our own high-speed network in China,"

Fang Chen looked at Dean Zhu helplessly. Who said that Dean Zhu was selfless and serious? Look at the hats he was wearing, one after another.

To be honest, after listening to Dean Zhu's words, he felt that if he didn't agree to Dean Zhu's words, he would be disrespectful of Dean Zhu's love and respect, and would be a national sinner of China.

But there is one thing to say: before the rise of China Communications Enterprises, the country was really cautious and cautious in this regard.

Most of the networks built by foreign companies only involve civilian use, and do not involve important special, sensitive areas and important departments.

As for network communications in important departments, domestic companies can do it if they can. If they can't, forget it.

Anyway, things like phone lines are always connected. As for surfing the Internet, using mobile phones, etc., don't think about it.

After a long time, Fang Chen looked at Dean Zhu helplessly and said: "Since you said so, I will recruit troops when I get back, let people study it, and give you a result as soon as possible, so as to complete this matter and do it well.

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Anyway, he also saw that Dean Zhu relied on him, and he would do it even if he didn't do it.

However, he did not blame Dean Zhu. If he wanted to blame it, he would blame him for being reborn. If he had not been reborn, this scene would probably not have happened.

To be honest, he had never thought about letting Qingtian get involved in high-speed networks and broadband before.

There is no way, Qingtian is involved in too many businesses now. Qingtian Communications alone has switches, 2.5G networks, mobile phones, wireless paging base stations and pagers.

And each of these territories is more important than the last, and each has more development prospects than the last. Even the most sparse pager in the future has great potential at this moment. The market of hundreds of billions will not be completely eliminated until at least five years later.

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Besides, he always said that others would easily lose their temper if they took too big a step, so he couldn't just completely forget about it and let himself go when it was his turn.

In addition, before 2005, at least before the turn of the millennium, the broadband business was too niche.

To put it bluntly, in the millennium, every household did not even have landline phones. How could they buy a computer costing several thousand or even tens of thousands of yuan?

At that time, only some key schools in medium and large cities still had some computers to teach microcomputer classes, realizing the saying "Computers must be started from childhood".

For the rest, most students in schools in small cities, counties, and towns can only watch what computers look like on TV and have no chance to practice them at all.

Institutions like schools don't even have computers, let alone ordinary people's homes.

And among these computers, not even one-third actually have broadband packages.

After all, if everyone is getting broadband, why do the authorities keep calling for speed increases and fee reductions?

It was only after 2005 that China's installed broadband capacity showed a qualitative leap.
To be continued...