In order to spread China's optical cables around the world and redefine the central node of the world's Internet, not only advanced communication technology was needed, but it also required strong sea power and political power.
Fortunately, miniaturized controllable nuclear fusion technology, which was completed a few years ago, provided the foundation for the former. The expansion of the cross-regional power grid in Southeast Asia at least won ASEAN over to this "unconditional security optical cable" chariot.
Of course, although the foundation for promoting the global optical cable system was already in place, it was not smooth sailing.
Due to the lack of cooperation from the United States, the submarine optical cable project that was originally scheduled to land from Shanghai to Los Angeles was forced to temporarily change its route. Panama City replaced Los Angeles as the landing point for the global submarine optical cable trans-Pacific section.
However, although it was decided to bypass the territorial waters of North America, the bandwidth of the submarine optical cable was still tendered according to the standards of the Asia-Pacific 2 submarine optical cable.
Obviously, the Trans-Pacific Submarine Optical Cable Committee still did not "give up" on the United States.
Even if they did not plan to get on the train, there were still seats left for them on this high-speed train.
However, when the time came to buy a ticket, it would not be as cheap as it was now …
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The second week of the bidding information announcement.
The only bid was sent to the Trans-Pacific Submarine Optical Cable Committee.
Without any suspense, East Asia Communications defeated a non-existent competitor and easily won the project.
Faced with such a result, SubCom, who had been vigorously promoting the Asia-Pacific Submarine Optical Cable No. 3, raised doubts. In particular, its CEO, Markati, publicly stated in an interview with CNN that there was a phenomenon of power rent-seeking and claimed that the so-called quantum communication was just a cover.
"… I admit that network information security is facing serious challenges, but it is far from the level of threat advocated by China's information security department."
"Yes, in theory, quantum communication technology can achieve maximum confidentiality, and the combination of quantum channels and traditional channels can also solve the problem of transmission speed, but I still doubt whether it makes sense to do this?
"There are too many ways to ensure the security of communication in this world, but they chose the most troublesome and expensive one. Regardless of whether they really solve the quantum repeater problem that has troubled research institutions all over the world, even if they do, I don't think this is the right time."
After listening carefully to Markati's complaints, the host continued to ask, "Then why do you think the Chinese are doing this?"
"This is a kind of political capital."
Markati replied in a serious tone.
"They create panic, spread panic, and then use panic to achieve their unspeakable goals, such as … building a network on the free internet that only serves them and exporting their values to other countries."
Host: "… This sounds very familiar."
"Yes, he's practically a terrorist!" Markati hammered his knee angrily, but he soon realized that he had lost his composure. "Sorry," he said, "I'll cut that part out."
"Yes, Mr. Markati." The host nodded to the cameraman in the studio, then looked at Markati with a smile and continued, "In addition to the export of values and the expansion of their hegemony on the Internet … Are there any other reasons?"
Markati said without hesitation.
"Of course. Compared to those long-term goals, the most direct function of this submarine optical cable is to set a threshold for fair competition in the submarine optical cable market, and to make the telecommunications companies and taxpayers of other countries pay for their immature technology!"
After the CNN interview was broadcasted, it caused a lot of reaction on the Internet.
Especially in the industry.
Almost no one was optimistic about the submarine optical cable led by China, and almost no one was optimistic about East Asia Communications' quantum communication technology.
This was understandable. After all, more than 90% of the market share was in the hands of SubCom, Japan's NEC, and Europe's Alcatel-Lucent. Most scholars and research institutions in this field were more or less funded by these three companies.
Even if they didn't speak up for them, these research institutions had absolutely no reason to speak up for East Asia Communications.
Not to mention that East Asia Communications' quantum optical cable technology was threatening their livelihood …
However, even though most people were not optimistic about East Asia Communications' quantum communication technology, this did not have any impact on the trans-Pacific optical cable project.
In fact, except for a few hardcore allies of the United States, most countries in the Asia- Pacific region had no position on this issue. Since China was willing to pay more money, of course they were happy to use this communication method.
As for confidentiality …
Honestly speaking, they didn't have anything worth mentioning.
Especially the countries covered by the cross-regional power grid, their stance on this matter was even more subtle. Since China expressed that it was willing to bear most of the optical cable laying costs, the telecommunications companies in Southeast Asia didn't hesitate at all.
Customers who had already made a deal were always more likely to make a deal again than customers who had never made a deal before.
Especially since they had already enjoyed the benefits of controllable fusion technology from China, they had no reason to refuse.
If China wanted to help them upgrade their telecommunications industry …
In that case, he would just let the Hua people do whatever they wanted.
Anyway, it was much cheaper than doing it themselves …
Just like this, no one cared about SubCom's dissatisfaction at all. Everything was carried out step by step.
Even though North America's official research institutions continued to publish research reports questioning the safety of this communication method and doubting whether it was really as reliable as East Asia Power described, it didn't have any impact on the entire project.
On the other hand, after more than a month of adjustments, the quantum encryption algorithm developed by the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study was finally modified from the RAS algorithm used in the domestic financial and telecommunications industries.
The upgraded encryption algorithm would be able to resist the brute force cracking of a 2,000-qubit quantum computer. In theory, it was the most advanced encryption algorithm in the world.
Seeing that China had fully promoted this algorithm, other countries and international financial institutions that were originally hesitant began to waver.
After all, if there were major security risks, there was no way China would promote it as a national secret encryption algorithm. The risks of making a mistake on this issue were no joke. It was no exaggeration to say that it could trigger an economic crisis …
The 20th Asia-Pacific Internet Information Security Summit hosted by the Shanghai Economic Cooperation Organization was about to be held. Not surprisingly, China would introduce this set of algorithms to the summit. National research institutions around the world began to seriously study whether this set of algorithms could withstand a 2,000-qubit network attack like China claimed …
Just like that, time passed day by day.
Finally, the day before the 20th Asia-Pacific Internet Information Security Summit was held.
While the representatives of the Asia-Pacific countries were preparing for the conference in Shanghai, a major event suddenly happened in the semiconductor industry.
There was no sign of it, nor was there any precaution.
In the main issue of Future, a summary paper was suddenly published, which introduced the "latest" research results of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study — a 524-qubit supercomputer based on carbon-based processor technology.
The author of the paper —
Lu Zhou.
As soon as the latest issue of Future was published …
The entire world went crazy!
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