Vol 6 Chapter 899: Come on, release satellite

Palo Alto, in the backyard of Page's home, Brin froze there with the beer, and the beer bottle in his hand was still fixed at an angle of forty-five degrees.

Peppa, who was grilling, was not getting better, he also looked at Feng Yiping blankly, "What did you say?"

"Hey hey, it's overheated!" Feng Yiping lifted his chin and motioned to the few pieces of beef on the grill that were about to be burnt.

"Oh," Peppa hurriedly turned over a few times, and looked at the marinated meat and seafood next to him. He waved to the children's pile, "Honey,"

His wife Lucy looked over, Paige pointed apologetically to the grill, wiped her hands on the apron, one by one, pushing Feng Yiping and Brin into the house.

The second-biggest one in the children’s pile said to the eldest one, "Look, Dad must have some new idea again, huh, he also said he came to play with us."

Vincent had to appease his sister, "Amanda, Dad and Uncle Page, they haven't seen each other for so long, it is inevitable that there will be something to discuss,"

Amanda retracted her gaze, frowned and whispered in her brother's ear, "The point is, it's not fun at all here,"

It's really not fun here, because they are surrounded by Peppa and Brin's children, who are smaller than them.

"No," Vincent touched his sister's head. "It's fun,"

Amanda looked at the little guys around who were still playing with toys. Is this fun?

She glanced at that angrily again, hum, mobile phones are not allowed to play, tablets are not allowed to play, what fun is there?

Think about it again last night when he heard the whispers of his father and mother, it seemed that he meant to add another younger brother or younger sister to her... God, this day is really impossible!

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In the living room, Feng Yiping looked at Peppa and Brin, who had problems with their stomachs, "Yes, it's the satellite. Is this strange?"

For them, satellites are really nothing strange.

American companies have always been enthusiastic about high-end technologies including satellites. The most successful example of this is Wal-Mart.

At the time of 83, Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, who was not a high-tech enthusiast, unexpectedly approved a plan to build a satellite system for the company.

This may be another of his most successful decisions. Ten years after the system was built, their sales quickly turned out to be only 8.4 billion U.S. dollars in annual sales, increasing to 93.6 billion U.S. dollars, and now more than 20 years later, it has reached 4000. More than one billion US dollars-Last year, Wal-Mart successfully landed on the top 500 list of Fortune Global 500 with revenue of 421.849 billion US dollars.

Although this is due to Wal-Mart’s other efforts, such as Wal-Mart’s “one network on the ground, one-stop delivery system and one tree management”, “one star in the sky” is one of the well-known “four ones” of Wal-Mart The core and key.

With the industry and scale currently involved in Feng Yiping, he can indeed learn from Wal-Mart in this regard.

"It's just," said Page, "you just proposed to Brazil a plan to build a submarine cable from New York to Sao Paulo?"

I heard that you are going to the sea, and then you are going to heaven?

"You are also aware of the deficiencies and limitations of these facilities, whether it is terrestrial optical fiber or submarine cable," Feng Yiping said.

In this regard, Google really knows.

Feng Yiping just proposed the first submarine cable plan, but Google has long invested in multiple cables, such as the "Unity Cable" that was put into use in 2010.

That is a submarine cable that connects California and Tokyo with a length of 9,620 kilometers.

They have already invested in construction and planned to invest in more projects, including multiple projects over 10,000 kilometers in length.

In terms of terrestrial optical fiber, they are also in the forefront, because they are not satisfied with the services provided by the communication operators, they launched the super broadband plan as early as 2010.

After hard work, this project will soon land in Kansas. By the end of this year, the project will be completed. They will provide Kansas with broadband services that are more than 10 times the traditional Ethernet transmission speed, and the speed will be at the gigabit level.

"Although most of the current network connections come from terrestrial and submarine fiber optic cables, the laying of these infrastructures is quite limited. This has led to very low Internet access rates in some areas. Some areas have told me that it will not reduce the Internet gap. exist,"

"I am also considering, including the balloon and drone plans launched by our two companies. In fact, they are all limited. More importantly, the impact will also be very limited."

"So, why don't we consider a more effective way?" Feng Yiping asked them.

"Feng, are you thinking about why Motorola failed again recently?" Brin asked.

The reason why he asked this is because if Wal-Mart is the representative of successful use of satellites, then Motorola is undoubtedly the representative of failed use of satellites.

In the 1980s, mobile phone calls were not so reliable. Once, the wife of Motorola engineer Barry Bertige complained on vacation in the Caribbean that she could not reach her customers and friends with her mobile phone.

After this guy who should be a super strict wife returned home, he and two other engineers from Motorola's satellite communications team working in Arizona came up with an exciting solution to build a wireless call support for all parts of the world. The global satellite mobile communication system.

They designed a constellation that requires 77 satellites in total, which is the same as 77 electrons with the metallic element Iridium. Therefore, this plan is called the Iridium satellite plan. In the later implementation, due to technical and cost considerations, only used 66 satellites.

In 1998, Motorola successfully completed the Iridium satellite system, which spent a lot of money. However, due to various reasons, including the rapid development of terrestrial communication technology, the project soon became heavily indebted. In the end, the Iridium satellite system cost 200 million yuan. The package price was sold to the US military.

Motorola alone spent US$3.4 billion on this project. Motorola's subsequent decline and the blood loss of the Iridium Project can be said to have a lot to do with it.

Feng Yiping smiled, "I read the relevant information, but the failure of the Iridium project has many reasons. Moreover, failure at that time does not mean that it will fail now."

"We know that satellite communication is actually not a new technology. The problem is that satellite communication and satellite Internet services are expensive, far from being acceptable to the general public."

"The point is, the functionality is still limited,"

At that time, satellites sounded like a tall thing, because of technical limitations, the network speed that they could provide was very slow, and they could not even support online video playback.

But the average daily cost of users can be as high as $200 per day.

"But in recent years, satellite technology has also been greatly improved, making satellites smaller and smaller, but their functions are getting better and better."

"The rocket recovery system being developed by Musk's SpaceX, Amazon and other companies can greatly reduce launch costs."

"With the addition of technologies such as multi-beam antennas, on-board processing, and spectrum multiplexing, as well as new TCP versions and improved TCP acceleration mechanisms, the performance of TCP based on satellite links has been significantly improved... These have made satellite broadband communications a reality,"

"I have consulted experts, and they believe that it is not too big a problem for the network to transmit data in a vacuum at close to the speed of light. Therefore, it is completely possible to design a satellite that can transmit data 50% or more faster than fiber optic cables on the ground. system,"

He concluded, "With the development of broadband satellite communication systems and space networking technologies, the Internet has gradually expanded from ground networks to space networks, and satellite communications have gradually entered the Internet application era, which is an irreversible trend."

"Yes," Peppa also picked up a bottle of beer. "This year, it can be said that it is the first year of Internet satellites."

What he said is that OneWeb has announced not long ago that it has launched the world’s largest satellite Internet plan, launching 648 satellites to establish a global low-orbit satellite network, and will launch 2400 satellites in the future to provide broadband Internet access. Into service... Although it seems that they do not have the financial strength to realize such a huge plan, and they have not found reliable investors at present, because of their plan, many institutions and companies have indeed paid attention to this field.

Feng Yiping took out his mobile phone, "Let’s not talk about the Internet gap caused by the imperfect infrastructure, but that 99% of the current intercontinental communications ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ are transmitted through submarine cables and through satellite systems. Yes, it’s less than 1%, we can see how much room for growth in this field,"

"I have a report here. Maybe in the next few years, the satellite broadband industry, in the next few years, revenue is likely to be only several billion US dollars, but with the implementation of network planning and the change of consumers' Internet habits, After 2020, the revenue of this industry will exceed 20 billion U.S. dollars, and by 2030, it is likely to increase to 50 billion U.S. dollars."

"We trust your judgment," Page said, "but Feng, at least 1,000 satellites?"

"Yes, at least 1,000," Feng Yiping picked up a strawberry and said lightly, as if he was talking about 1,000 strawberries, "but in the end it may be 2,000 or 3,000,"

"Don't worry," he smiled. "Such a satellite will not cost too much. Probably, it will only cost 500,000 to 1 million US dollars."

Page looked at Brin with a wry smile, one is not expensive, but you are at least 1,000, plus the launch cost, plus the ground receiving station...Where is this a small project?

Of course, the problem is not the money spent, the biggest problem is the risk.

"Please," Feng Yiping put on the shoulders of the two of them, with a bewildered tone, "no one knows better than us, the network without blind spots, and the faster network speed, is for the entire industry and the development of our company. The meaning of,"

"Think about it, if the fiber at home can be connected to space signals, and the download speed can reach 200 megabytes, and the upload speed can reach 50 megabytes... this ubiquitous satellite signal can also allow your car to connect at any time..."

"What a wonderful scene that would be!"