"Hey, what's wrong with this... kid?"

Unknowingly, Carter, who had almost become a public enemy in the Yale faculty circle, was thinking about something with a face full of sorrow and anger. Professor Kao Kun and Dr. Li also ended their conversation with each other.

Professor Gao Kun's first impression of Carter, a little foreigner who led his compatriots to find him, was not bad. When he saw Carter who was about to cry, he couldn't help but ask after being stunned.

"Hahaha, we changed his class schedule and added advanced math classes to him..."

"This...well, it's time to cry!"

After hearing Freeman's explanation, Professor Gao Kun laughed...

Although most of the people present here are engineering seniors, and most of them have PhDs, but who didn’t come from the undergraduate stage? Think about the days when they were tortured to death by high mathematics, and they were in ecstasy...

Occasionally tricking the younger generation, this kind of little adjustment in life... the needle does not poke...

...

...

"Professor Gao, I heard that China is currently working on an optical fiber communication project. Have you considered going back to help?"

At the dinner party, after three rounds of wine and five flavors of food...

Carter also did not forget what he cared about and coveted.

If you can't get the details from Dr. Li, what about Professor Kao Kun?

You are not an organizational person, but you are looking for help. There are some things that you should not explain more thoroughly?

"Oh, I want to go back, but at my age, there are some things that I can't help myself with. Besides, I'm just a theoretical and academic person. After sharing knowledge with them, what we can do is actually very limited."

"Besides, are you looking down on us Chinese people too much?"

Professor Gao Kun smiled a little proudly and did not shy away from the fact that there were two other foreigners around him...

These Chinese who have been overseas for a long time, in terms of how they deal with things, especially in their attitude towards outsiders, are completely different from Dr. Li, who seems a bit reserved and behaves like he can do anything without talking.

"They actually already have the ability to build optical fiber communication projects. The laser has completely independent intellectual property rights. The loss rate of optical fiber has reached 0.29db/km, and the technology they use is different from that of Bell Labs. What they use

It is the mcvd method that manufactures quartz glass optical fiber preforms, and the preforms are processed. It is also a disadvantage of not having high-precision equipment..."

"Dr. Li came to me for consultation about semiconductor integrated blocks. This one is the best and the best choice. But even if it is not available, they can still use their own methods to complete optical fiber communication, although the efficiency will be slower. But

It’s only a matter of time before we catch up!”

"Haha, I have never doubted the intelligence of the Chinese people. Otherwise, I would not have invested in China very early. I am optimistic about their future... just like I am optimistic about optical fiber communication technology. I think optical signals will replace electrical signals.

It is only a matter of time before it becomes the mainstream communication method in the future!”

"It's so rare! Nowadays, optical fiber communication is basically a laboratory product. You can have access to it, and..."

"It has a large application space! Higher speed, higher efficiency, including within the same volume of transmission pipeline, the fiber optic pipeline can transmit a greater amount of information. These are advantages that electrical signals transmitted by copper wires cannot match.

!”

While Carter took over the topic with a smile, he couldn't help but turn to the other two professors:

"Professor Freeman should know that I have recently been very interested in optical fiber communications. I have been thinking about where to start and invest in the field of optical fiber communications on a small scale. During this time, a lot of my energy has been focused on this.

aspect..."

"You haven't given up on this idea yet? Now the cost per kilometer of fiber optic communication projects... think about how many people can afford it?!"

Freeman put down the cutlery in his hand and looked at Carter in astonishment.

This really means you won’t look back until you hit the wall, right?

If you have this energy, why don’t you use it in your studies?!

"There will always be. In fact, I have some ideas. For example, laying such an optical fiber communication signal between the two cities of New York and Chicago..."

"Looking across the country, it seems that apart from the military, the financial practitioners on Wall Street have a strong pursuit of timeliness, right? Moreover, they also have money to spend..."

"Unless you take this line to London, or to California..."

Freeman shook his head and was not optimistic about Carter's idea:

"The delay rate for information transmission from Chicago to New York is basically negligible. For such a small, subtle, and possibly imperceptible communication acceleration, it costs a lot of money, and even Wall Street is not willing to do it!"

"But you are talking about telephone trading! Nasdaq uses an electronic trading system. For electronic trading, this is the field of computer communications!"

Compared with the traditional New York Stock Exchange, Carter's goal from the beginning was Nasdaq...

Think about S370, it takes nearly 5 minutes to send a document to New York. Even if the trading instructions can be encoded and compressed, including the decoding time, sending a trading order from Chicago to the electronic trading terminal of Nasdaq.

..

This statute of limitations, in 1982, would have been at least 3 minutes, right?!

If you switch to optical fiber communication, then this time...

"There's no rush for this right now. I've already arranged for people to go to the Nasdaq trading floor to investigate. Let's take a look at the timeliness of order delivery among the major exchanges. If there's a chance, I'd like to take a gamble.

..”

"But as you said, professor, this investment is too big. If I don't have enough confidence, I won't make any moves for the time being."

A distance of more than 1,200 kilometers, it connects the two major exchanges in the United States and is a place with a developed financial industry. It has good prospects, but for investment, please refer to the SR-166 highway, which is more than 100 kilometers and costs 300 million.

...

If you want to build such a fiber optic pipeline to connect the two places, it doesn't cost more than 2 billion, it's something you don't have to think about...

But if we can really achieve a qualitative leap in information exchange efficiency, then the value of this optical fiber management will be more valuable than ordinary oil pipelines!

What’s flowing inside is no longer a light signal, it’s gold! It’s U.S. dollars!

"You plan to build a fiber optic channel from Chicago to New York? Isn't this... too big a deal?"

Not only Freeman and the two questioned Carter's idea, but Professor Gao Kun couldn't help but click his tongue after hearing this.

Others build a ten-kilometer-long road and it's enough to test it out, but you can do it a hundred times...

"It's a bit big, so it may be smaller at first. For example, build a China Unicom line to Boston and see the effect... This one is only 340 kilometers, and it is estimated that it can be won within one billion US dollars!"

"No, no, no, I mean, you can't find such a long fiber optic pipeline on the market now. Over a long distance, the losses in the middle, including some accidental damage, are unpredictable."

"Why don't you first build a communication project of more than ten kilometers like Chicago, or the '82 Project' that Dr. Li and others are preparing, try it out, learn from it, and give it a try?"


Chapter completed!