Chapter 117: Technical Standards
Whether you like it or not, time is unswervingly walking on the road to the future.
Although the results are certainly gratifying, Wang Yong has always kept in mind Liu Meijuan's words. A technology company and an Internet company will never be 18 months before bankruptcy.
This is the famous Moore's Law. The speed of technology is very fast. If you can't keep up with the pace of development of the times, you can only be ruthlessly eliminated.
Liu Meijuan has practiced it and has been developing a wifi wireless router for a while. She thought it was easy, but she encountered big trouble.
The main reason is that she is too advanced, without the support of electronic hardware, or even the support of standard theory.
Later Wi-Fi was a wireless LAN technology invented by the CSIRO research institute in Odalia in 1996.
Simply put, it is a technology that uses a 2.4ghz wireless frequency band and can be connected to wirelessly without registration.
Before this, you could only use twisted pair copper core wire to access the Internet using Adsl wired dialing.
The difficulty of wifi technology is that it currently lacks standard support for wireless LANs, that is, Liu Meijuan must first formulate a set of strict wireless Internet access rules.
Another important reason is that the later generations of wifi are easily hijacked because they are too open, which causes losses to users.
There are two options in front of Liu Meijuan now. One is to preempt CSIRO to issue wifi technology patents, and the other is to prepare a strict set of wireless LAN standards by yourself.
The former method seems to be able to cut off CSIRO's wifi patents, and you can charge patent fees all over the world as long as you lie down.
Things are not that simple. The reason why wifi is widely adopted is that the wireless network technology standard 802.11 formulated by the American Ieeee Organization in 1997 adopted the wifi standard.
In the final analysis, the influence of the United States is too great. He has the final say whether a technology can be used worldwide. Our country later developed a new wireless LAN transmission standard (wapi). Later, because only China was using it, it could not become an international standard and it was left unresolved.
In other words, the wireless LAN transmission standards formulated by Dolphin Technology are unlikely to be adopted by IEEE, and it is even more unlikely to form a world-wide standard. If you want to have a dream of collecting patent fees while lying down, don’t think too much.
However, no matter what, the standards should be formulated, and the applied patent should still be applied for. At least Dolphin Technology does not need to pay patent fees to CSIRO.
After thinking it through, Liu Meijuan convened all the software and hardware engineers in the company except for the holidays to hold a technical seminar, and the company's legal department attended the meeting.
Liu Meijuan ranked first, looking at dozens of young engineers below, dozens of eyes, looking at her in unison. She couldn't help but feel proud that Dolphin Technology is growing little by little.
"Today's emergency meeting is a technical seminar on wireless LAN transmission standards. I have received information that the Australian CSIRO research institute is developing this technology. As long as they develop it successfully, all the technologies and products we use for wireless Internet access in the future will be paid to them.
This is definitely not what I want to see, so I will gather you together to develop the technology of wireless LAN transmission standards. The purpose is to develop relevant patents before CSIRO and apply for patent protection first.
This is also the reason why I want the Legal Department to attend today. Because I have to seize the time, I ask you to apply for one patent for protection every time you generate it, so you must also participate in the whole process.”
After the opening remarks, Liu Meijuan asked the three clerks of the company to send information to all participants and explained: "This is a technical planning outline I have compiled. I require that before this year, you must improve it and form a complete set of wireless LAN transmission technical standards, especially in terms of wireless Internet security, access standards must be strictly formulated.
I now appoint Song Qingwei as the leader of the temporary technical attack team and Zhu Tao as the deputy leader, and you two will be responsible for me."
Speaking of this, Liu Meijuan suddenly stood up and announced the "end of the meeting!" and left the conference room first and went back to her office.
In addition to being a logical wireless transmission standard, wifi also needs a wireless network card based on radio frequency (hr) electronic components. This is the physical layer, and its performance determines the wireless transmission rate.
A simple integrated circuit board like a wifi router is not difficult for Liu Meijuan. All she needs to do is choose a suitable general-purpose processor.
Liu Meijuan chose a mips processor. Its performance is not the best, but it is relatively cheap, and it is very power-saving and not easy to heat up.
The most important thing is that Dolphin Technology will buy the underlying architecture technology license of mips chips next year, which is equivalent to using its own chips.
The so-called difficulty cannot be, and the ability is not difficult.
Liu Meijuan has selected key general-purpose processors and electronic components, so it is not technically difficult to design integrated circuits.
In just three days, Liu Meijuan completed the design of the entire wireless router, including appearance design and various interface standards.
After she finished all this, she realized that Wang Yong had been staying in the factory for a while. Because the electromagnetic shielding was installed in the electronics production workshop, he could not even be able to get through the big brother. Liu Meijuan could only save the drawings she designed on a CD and went to the secretarial room to print the drawings herself.
When Liu Meijuan walked into Kuandang's secretarial room, three clerks were carefully checking technical information and related patent information.
Liu Meijuan walked to one of the girls with otaku faces, dropped the CD to her desk and ordered: "Ali, please help me print out the drawings of this document."
"Okay" girl looked up and saw that it was the boss's wife, so she quickly responded respectfully. She quickly turned on the host optical drive, put it in the CD, and turned on the printing program on the computer to start printing.
No matter how simple a product is, there are thick stacks of design drawings, and printing takes time. Liu Meijuan couldn't wait for that long, so she turned around and went to the wireless LAN transmission standard formulation technical team.
The location is the office of the smart home project department. Because the office is only about 100 square meters, there are dozens of software and hardware engineers, which is a bit crowded inside.
When Liu Meijuan walked to Song Qingwei, everyone in the office noticed her and everyone said hello to her in unison.
Liu Meijuan nodded in response with a smile, and asked Song Qingwei: "Captain Song, is there any progress?"
"Yes, yes! Director Liu, you have formulated a technical outline. We are just improving the standards, and it is not difficult to do it. Now the wireless standards have been basically improved. We are only one wireless router to write the control program." Song Qingwei replied with a smile.
"Oh! I've designed the wireless router. When the drawings are printed out, I will arrange for the production department to test the production department for your use."
"That's great! I'm a little excited and confused. I really want to see the birth of this new wireless router as soon as possible." Song Qingwei said happily.
Liu Meijuan couldn't expect the progress to be so fast, but in fact it was natural to think about it. Dozens of software and hardware engineers worked together, and under the guidance of her technical outline, it was abnormal to be unhappy.
Anyway, Dolphin Technology finally has another product with its own completely independent intellectual property rights, which is indeed a big event to be happy about, so Liu Meijuan also smiled, and she showed two charming dimples with a smile.
Chapter completed!