However, this investment was shared by the three major networks, so when divided among them, it wasn't actually that much.
Once the project is completed, it will generate a continuous stream of revenue.
The launch of the Internet backbone network project caused a sensation around the world.
They never expected that China would have such great courage to build the network.
Currently, the biggest role of optical fiber is in the development of fiber optic cable television.
As for the internet, who understands it? Most people aren't optimistic about it. Currently, only a small number of experts use the internet for communication. In fact, many people feel that they can just make a phone call; why bother with the internet? It's too much trouble.
At this time, the development of INTERNET in the United States also encountered a bottleneck.
While the internet connects most of the world's developed countries, people primarily use it only for sending emails.
Without the World Wide Web, there would be no websites.
Zhao Ye deliberately delayed the development of the internet by one or two years.
On the contrary, China is building the Internet on a large scale, and it is a "three-network integration". Once completed, the whole country can access the Internet, and the price is also very cheap.
At this point, even if other companies launched products similar to the World Wide Web, Zhao Ye wasn't afraid. After all, the domestic market was already heavily reliant on the World Wide Web. Furthermore, the World Wide Web and browser developed by Wujiang Group would absolutely crush their competitors technically; although Wujiang Group hadn't released them, they were constantly refining them.
Moreover, Wujiang Group has also developed an IPv6 root server that can completely destroy the US IPv4 root server.
Zhao Ye plans to lead the establishment of 25 root servers worldwide, consisting of one primary root server and four secondary root servers in China, with the remaining root servers to be distributed among other countries.
Although the number of IPv6 root servers is not large, the number becomes quite large when mirror root servers are included.
The United States has been watching China's vigorous construction of its internet backbone network, but it has simply turned a blind eye.
Instead, they believe that because the United States does not include China, China has to spend huge sums of money to build its own network, wasting a lot of valuable funds.
Clearly, at that time, people abroad had not yet realized the importance of the internet!
The United States proposed the "Information Superhighway" plan in 1994. Prior to this, the World Wide Web had been launched for four years, and Netscape Navigator was all the rage at the time, which made the United States realize the importance of the Internet!
It is worth mentioning that the United States plans to invest $400 billion over 20 years to gradually lay fiber optic cables to all households.
Although China's investment in "three-network convergence" is only $20 billion, China's labor costs, land acquisition costs, and production costs of products such as routers and fiber optic cables are much lower than those in the United States. Therefore, this $20 billion can accomplish a great deal. Moreover, fiber-to-the-home will be funded by the users themselves, although the cost will not be very high. In this way, telecommunications fiber optic cables can be laid to all households.
Because of the "three-network convergence", all families in China are willing to connect to fiber optic networks.
Do you want to watch TV? Do you want to make phone calls? Then install fiber optic cable!
In China, watching television is a basic necessity!
Based on this alone, many users will be able to activate fiber optic internet.
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Once the Chinese internet is established, Wujiang Group will immediately launch its website and browser.
At this point, it becomes necessary to set up a website server.
Nuwa Server is a product developed by Wujiang Group at great expense. It features advanced performance, low energy consumption, and wide range of applications.
Server rooms, also known as data centers.
In the past, it was more commonly called a data center.
At the same time that the Internet backbone network was being built, Wujiang Group was also building four data centers, located in the capital, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Wuhan respectively. None of them were large in scale, ranging from 50 million to 100 million US dollars.
At this time, at the Nuwa Server Research Center.
Zhao Ye is on stage explaining another server architecture to the developers.
For websites, servers are very important!
Therefore, from the very beginning, Zhao Ye planned to develop a more advanced server.
"Traditional server architecture is rack-mounted servers, but it has many drawbacks."
Zhao Ye pondered for a moment and then explained: "First, the cost is high. Rack servers require more cooling equipment, which increases the cost. Second, the energy consumption is high. Rack servers consume more electricity when running. Third, the scalability is limited. The scalability of rack servers is limited by the internal space. For example, a 1U server has only one or two PCI expansion slots!"
"Today, I'm going to introduce a brand new server architecture called the blade server!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Ye instructed his secretary, Liu Yinyin, to distribute the pre-printed materials to everyone present.
Everyone read it carefully and was utterly shocked; how could this be possible...?
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