Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1494
Zhou Buqi knows that the tourism markets in Europe, America, South Korea and Japan are very large, but this is not easy to do. It is necessary to build a systematic financial platform.

For Ziweixing International, now is not the time to develop new industries, and the key is to gain a firm foothold in social business internationally.

Li Yanhong also saw that he was not interested, so she asked with a smile, "By the way, how is the business development of Weibo and Helo in Europe?"

"Oh, don't mention it!"

"what happened?"

"Internet desert, the hardware conditions are far worse than those in China!"

"No way?" Li Yanhong was surprised, "Didn't those developed countries have tried 4G, and the optical fiber network has long been..."

Zhou Buqi interrupted him, "I'm not talking about the network infrastructure, but the supporting network services. If Ziweixing's business wants to be promoted in Europe, it must be promoted country by country in person."

"CDN service is poor?"

"Yes, it is useless, or there are no large Internet companies in Europe."

Zhou Buqi couldn't help complaining.

Operating a website, game, or mobile app is actually a process of data access, calculation, and transmission. Access depends on the database, calculation depends on the server, and transmission depends on optical fiber.

The transmission speed of optical fiber is very fast, but no matter how fast it is, there will be delay.

The solution is to deploy a server that can meet the computing power nearby.

Shorten the transmission distance of the data signal, and the user experience will be better when using it.

But here comes the problem. Many companies are very weak and cannot deploy servers nearby in every region. What should I do?This requires a CDN service provider.

CDN service providers will deploy servers in many key regions and cities to become a node.Internet companies cooperate with CDN service providers, rent their nodes, and use their servers to complete data distribution.

Just like the early school intranet.

At that time, the school intranet was very weak, and servers could only be deployed in the capital.But the country is very big, and colleges and universities near the capital can easily access the intranet, but what about colleges and universities in the south?The distance is too far.

Small visits to campus forums are tolerable.

But on-campus group buying is not enough. When the goods are scarce, college students in southern universities can't grab anything because of network delays.

In order to solve this problem, Ziweixing sought the help of Wangsu Technology at that time. Relying on the more than 200 nodes deployed by Wangsu across the country, it helped the school intranet solve the problems of heavy traffic and access delays.

To this day, Ziweixing and Wangsu still have business cooperation.

For Internet companies, a company like Wangsu Technology is a necessity, especially in the early stages of development. If you want to have a good product experience, you cannot do without such a service provider.

But here comes the problem, not in Europe!

CDN service is an asset-heavy business, which requires the purchase of a large number of servers to be deployed in different regions, as well as a large team scattered in various places for operation and management.

Based on the scale of the domestic Internet market, Wangsu, as the largest CDN service provider in China, has a current market value of 30 billion yuan.

This is a high-investment, asset-heavy, low-return business.

Wangsu can do it because it only does domestic business.Regardless of whether it is the south or the north, no matter whether it is the east or the west, Chinese is used and can be operated by a unified team.

If the south can't do well, they will send a team from the north to take care of it; if the west can't do well, they will send a team from the east to take over.

This is a unified country with no cultural differences, no language differences, and uniform policies and laws.

But not in Europe.

There are a bunch of small countries, and each country has a different language, cultural environment, policies and laws.This is very broken. The CDN business is a business with high investment, heavy assets and slow return on capital. There are so many complicated external conditions, and different teams need to be formed in different countries... This has lost the possibility of profitability.

In the general environment of the market economy, because this business is not profitable, there is no CDN distribution service provider in Europe that can spread all over Europe like Wangsu in China.

This has led to Internet companies wanting to do business in Europe, so they can't think about relying on the help of third-party companies, and can only end it in person, country by country.

The investment cost is huge and the management is extremely difficult.

Only giants with strong financial strength can afford it.

A start-up company in a small European country, subject to such external conditions, will never succeed.Even if the project is really good and has great market prospects, Silicon Valley giants enter the market belatedly, relying on strong financial strength, and develop in dozens of countries at the same time, quickly crushing small companies.

There are only two final results for small companies: either sell or die.

In the final analysis, it is the special environment in Europe that prevents European start-up companies from taking advantage of the first-mover advantage to quickly gain a foothold on the track even if they find the right track.

This is also the reason why Ziweixing's cloud computing business has been warmly welcomed by European countries.

Cloud computing service is the CDN service of "super version", "enhanced version", "enriched version" and "deep version".

If Ziweiyun spreads all over Europe, future European start-up companies can use Ziweiyun's platform resources to quickly promote their business to the whole of Europe!

If you want to expand your business in Spain, you can go to Ziwei Cloud to buy cloud servers deployed in Madrid and Barcelona. If you want to expand your business in France, you can go to Ziwei Cloud to buy cloud servers deployed in Paris and Marseille.

This will greatly reduce the difficulty for start-up companies to expand their business in new markets and countries, so that they can attack quickly and grab the track before the giants can react.

Hearing the complaint from boss Zhou, Li Yanhong couldn't help complaining, "Not only is the network service not enough, but the people are also not good enough!"

"People? Engineers?"

"Yes, too lazy."

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "Didn't you work in Silicon Valley before? You haven't experienced it yet?"

Li Yanhong shook his head, "Silicon Valley is much better than the UK! Overtime in Silicon Valley is not as serious as in China, but the logic of the American dream is to pursue dreams through struggle and hard work. This time I went to Edinburgh to investigate Skyscanner, It’s really unbearable to look at.”

"Either Britain is the back garden of the United States." Zhou Buqi was also deeply touched by this, "Employees in Silicon Valley are lazy enough, but if they can't get along in Silicon Valley, they come back to the UK. Either the technology is too poor Silicon Valley doesn't like it, or it's too lazy and Silicon Valley doesn't want it."

Li Yanhong said: "Skyscanner's core business is the search service for air tickets. It was established around the same time as Baidu, but it had to seek technical support from Baidu. At first I thought it was because of their technical talents. I have seen it."

"What?" Zhou Buqi heard something, and was a little surprised, "A high level of technology?"

"High! They all graduated from prestigious schools, and their overall technical level is higher than that of Baidu." Li Yanhong sighed, "It's just that I'm too lazy to work."

"I don't understand technology anymore. You are an expert. If you say so, that's it."

Zhou Buqi looked serious and felt that this was very important to the business structure of Ziweixing International.Even the United Kingdom is like this, and the pure white and leftist world in the European continent is even more serious.

Li Yanhong said: "In Baidu, every industry line has to submit a technical report every week and publish it on the intranet to clearly explain the technical iterations and innovations of the week. Every time there is a good technological breakthrough, there will be a few posts Hundreds of articles, everyone should comment, praise, and encourage together. This can form a good corporate technical culture, and let the technical team generate the motivation and passion for further technical iteration and technological innovation.”

Zhou Buqi coughed, because Ziwei Star did the same thing internally, stealing from Baidu, and asked calmly, "What about your investigation results?"

Li Yanhong took a deep look at him, feeling sad, "Half a year."

"What?"

"You heard me right, half a year. Each technical team submits once every six months and submits twice a year. How does this work? It takes such a long time to go to work at 10 in the morning every day, take a nap at noon, and make an appointment in the afternoon. Exercise, and get off work after two hours of get off work. To be honest, in my opinion, those people are wasting their lives. It’s a pity for their talents and learning to just dawdle like that every day despite their high technical level.”

"The technology is so good. If I have higher pursuit, I will go to work in Silicon Valley. Staying in the UK is nothing more than relaxing and stress-free. I just want to live my life in a mediocre way." Zhou Buqi smiled. It’s not because of this cultural difference, how could our country catch up in just a few decades? The domestic technology level is not as good as theirs, but hard work can make up for it. It is the spirit of hard work and hard work that has created an economic miracle that has attracted worldwide attention.”

Li Yanhong was amused, "You gave an impromptu speech!"

Zhou Buqi smiled, "Isn't it?"

Li Yanhong sighed, "If you give them all to me, I guarantee that Baidu's technical level will surpass Google's!"

"You blow it!"

"Really, the premise is that they have to follow my model, which is the fastest growing economy."

Zhou Buqi snorted: "Let's talk less about the group and more about the individual!"

"Haha!" Li Yanhong couldn't help but laughed and cursed, "Don't go online!"

(End of this chapter)