Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1899 Burning Money
These future bigwigs of today are completely unequal in front of Telecom, and from the perspective of the ministries, it is difficult for them to gain any attention.

The local governments are quite cooperative and offer generous discounts, but they only stay at the traditional three connections and one leveling system. This is actually the last thing people working in the Internet industry need.

Therefore, with the Clover to integrate them, everyone can feel more confident when negotiating with telecommunications companies, and can sit up straighter during ministry meetings.

From the ministries' point of view, the involvement of "regular forces" like the Clover Group in this matter also makes them feel more at ease.

From Telecom's perspective, Clover already has its own satellite lines and has no reliance on the newly opened Beijing-Shanghai line. On the contrary, Telecom is more envious of Clover's many Internet application tools.

The current router is still Cisco 501, which is equipped with a satellite line. The satellite line and the telecommunications switch are connected using DDN optical fiber. Currently, the services that can be run on it include e-mail, search engines, portals, news groups, telnet, ftp and other services.

Telecom has decent technical capabilities in terms of optical fiber, and is also a pioneer in terms of satellite technology. It often needs the support of the Clover Group, which has deep expertise in Internet application technology.

Of course, Clover Group is also happy to provide such support. Many applications require the cooperation of telecommunications to open relevant interfaces and protocols to be realized, and both parties have a strong willingness to cooperate.

In fact, two companies in the first batch of value-added telecommunications licenses did not enter this market, namely Hexun and 21Vianet. The remaining three companies, ChinaNet, Intime and Xunyijin.com, all once dreamed of occupying a share of the INTERNET and replacing Telecom. The relationship between these three companies and Telecom is one of both cooperation and competition.

Faced with such a situation, telecom companies have to consider finding a more reliable partner to avoid being overly controlled in the Internet communications industry, which they are just starting out in and are not very familiar with.

Unlike several other ambitious companies, the others want to use the ISP qualifications they have obtained to independently build China's private Internet lines without the help of telecommunications, and some have already started to take action, such as Xunye Jinwang, which claims to have invested 400 million yuan to build a network backbone connecting every city in China.

Although Clover Group has strong economic strength, perfect ministerial relations and profound academic background, its research direction and group positioning also make Telecom feel at ease. Although Clover has its own satellite access lines, it has never thought about building its own network lines after landing. Instead, it chose to rent Telecom's lines to build the western network and campus network.

Due to the technical and financial strength issues in the southwest region, Southwest Telecom is responsible for network transmission after the signal lands, but its satellite access technology is much worse, and the support is still provided by Clover Group.

The two parties quickly formed a deep cooperative relationship that was different from that of several other ISPs.

However, the two sides went through very difficult negotiations on the price of line leasing.

The price offered by Telecom is 2 million yuan per month for each M line.

The price at Zhou Zhixin’s heart is 20,000 yuan per month.

The gap between the two prices was so huge that both sides felt that the other side was being unreasonable.

Finally, the lawsuit was brought to the Ministry, which tried to smooth things over by asking Clover Group to provide all the information equipment and line costs, while Telecom only provided the computer room and was responsible for maintenance and management. This was equivalent to Clover Group giving Telecom a full set of equipment for building the Internet, and then reducing the line rental price from 4 million per month to 80,000 per month. With the successful negotiation experience with Party A, the negotiations with Telecom that had once made Er Ma Lei Ding feel very difficult in his previous life have now become much easier under the guidance of Clover Group.

Even the first standard for transmitting Chinese on the Internet, the IETF protocol, was developed by Clover and adopted worldwide. This alone made it impossible for all parties to bypass the Clover Group at the time.

This also had a side effect, which was that Guangdong Province was in a panic. The INTERNET in the southwest had been built, but Guangdong Province was still negotiating, and its reputation as an advanced province was almost lost.

So AsiaInfo finally got its first big order in China and invested 5 million US dollars to build the INTERNET network in Guangdong Province.

Guangdong Telecom has only one requirement, which is that the Internet network in the seven cities must be fully opened before October 1st!

Zhou Zhi is very clear that for such a large industry, Clover Group alone cannot accomplish anything big, and it is necessary to cultivate a large force. However, after such an operation, its status as the "ancestor" of China's Internet industry is almost confirmed.

Although he sold part of the steamed buns to five people, Zhou Zhi believed that with the abilities of these five people, they could quickly catalyze and expand the steamed buns, and the part that would eventually be returned to him would be much larger than it is now.

The Clover Group will continue to delve deeper and engage in more complex and forward-looking information technology. With him around, at least there will be no major directional mistakes, and it is entirely possible to "overtake on curves" in both software and hardware.

However, to overtake others, we must start from the most basic level. The most basic thing we can do now is to upgrade the internal system of Clover Group first, develop distributed computing power integration tools and task allocation tools as soon as possible, and complete the most original architecture.

This is a very expensive behavior. Finally, after a discussion, everyone decided to use four minicomputers, twenty servers, and one hundred desktop computers to initially connect a computing system in series, striving to achieve the computing power level of a medium-sized computer.

Guan Tingting and several other artists were listening to the excitement, and now they finally felt that something was wrong: "Just now, Brother Tianyu said that the computing power of four minicomputers is greater than that of a medium-sized computer. How come after adding 20 servers and 100 desktop computers, the computing power has decreased instead of increased?"

"Because the complex tools and scheduling system themselves also consume computing power." Zhou Zhi explained with a smile: "As for how large this system should be configured to reflect its superiority, or how to increase computing power under the existing scale, it depends on Xiao Miao's ability."

"What we are talking about now is how to solve the problem of whether there is one or not. It is inevitable to spend more money."

"How much does this cost? Computers seem to be quite expensive." Hu Rui is now a wealthy woman, but she still thinks computers are expensive: "A good one costs 10,000 or 20,000 yuan."

"I'm afraid we have more than that." Zhou Zhi said, "We also need to adapt the computer room, racks, power supplies, switches and other auxiliary equipment. The desktop computer alone costs at least 20,000 yuan, and the server is at least..."

"One hundred thousand, and a minicomputer three hundred thousand." Hu Lidong already had a rough idea in his mind.

"Wow..." The artists were simply amazed: "Five million and two hundred thousand! It's enough for us to hold more than twenty concerts, and you're gone with just a few words!"